{"id":223,"date":"2008-08-27T19:01:02","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T01:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/27\/great-burden-shifting-case\/"},"modified":"2008-08-27T19:01:02","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T01:01:02","slug":"great-burden-shifting-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/08\/27\/great-burden-shifting-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Burden Shifting Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a closely balanced drug case, where the defense argued\u00a0 that it was unconscionable that the State had failed to have certain items tested for fingerprints,\u00a0the\u00a04th District Appellate court\u00a0stated that the defense can never open the door so as to shift the\u00a0burden of proof, and therefore, the State&#8217;s rebuttal argument that it was unconscionable for the defense not to have submitted\u00a0the fingerprints for analysis, was\u00a0reversible error.\u00a0&#8220;Further, by overruling defendant&#8217;s objections to these type of comments by the State, the\u00a0trial court\u00a0was in effect sanctioning an erroneous burden of proof before the eyes of the jury,&#8221;\u00a0 Justice Cook wrote. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.il.us\/court\/Opinions\/AppellateCourt\/2008\/4thDistrict\/August\/4070474.pdf\">People v.\u00a0Aaron Beasley<\/a>, 4th District, 8\/22\/08. \u00a0 B. E. M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a closely balanced drug case, where the defense argued\u00a0 that it was unconscionable that the State had failed to have certain items tested for fingerprints,\u00a0the\u00a04th District Appellate court\u00a0stated that the defense can never open the door so as to shift the\u00a0burden of proof, and therefore, the State&#8217;s rebuttal argument that it was unconscionable for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}