{"id":490,"date":"2009-05-28T23:51:13","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T05:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/blog\/?p=490"},"modified":"2009-05-30T08:54:59","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T14:54:59","slug":"retardation-and-miranda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/05\/28\/retardation-and-miranda\/","title":{"rendered":"Retardation and Miranda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Despite conflicting expert opinions on the issue of defendant&#8217;s ability to understand and waive her\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1243576051_0\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Miranda rights<\/span> that the\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1243576051_1\" class=\"yshortcuts\">trial court<\/span> resolved in favor of the State, our\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1243576051_2\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Appellate Court<\/span> supresses defendant&#8217;s videotape statement and remands for a new trial in a tour de force opinion authored by Justice Gordon in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.il.us\/court\/OPINIONS\/AppellateCourt\/2009\/1stDistrict\/May\/1063514.pdf\">People v Jeanette Daniels<\/a>.<\/em> (No. 1-06-3514\u00a0 5\/15\/09)\u00a0 The Appellate Court&#8217;s decision notes that despite the &#8220;ruminations&#8221;\u00a0 and &#8220;interspersed comments&#8221; of the learned trial\u00a0judge\u00a0and although &#8220;a\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1243576051_3\" class=\"yshortcuts\">trier of fact<\/span> is free\u00a0to accept the opinion of one\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1243576051_4\" class=\"yshortcuts\">expert witness<\/span> over another&#8230;the relative weight to be given an expert&#8217;s witness&#8217; opinion is measured by the reasons given for the conclusion and the factual details supporting it&#8221;. Here the details developed in the record by trial attorney and Local 3315 President K.S. (Bob) Galhotra convinced the Appellate Court to suppress defendant&#8217;s videotaped statement and remand for a new trial.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite conflicting expert opinions on the issue of defendant&#8217;s ability to understand and waive her\u00a0Miranda rights that the\u00a0trial court resolved in favor of the State, our\u00a0Appellate Court supresses defendant&#8217;s videotape statement and remands for a new trial in a tour de force opinion authored by Justice Gordon in People v Jeanette Daniels. (No. 1-06-3514\u00a0 5\/15\/09)\u00a0 [&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-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","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=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}