{"id":524,"date":"2009-07-28T20:59:43","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T02:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/blog\/?p=524"},"modified":"2009-07-28T20:59:43","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T02:59:43","slug":"s-ct-rule-431-b-says-what-it-means-and-means-what-it-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/07\/28\/s-ct-rule-431-b-says-what-it-means-and-means-what-it-says\/","title":{"rendered":"S. Ct Rule 431 (b) SAYS WHAT IT MEANS AND MEANS WHAT IT SAYS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-size: x-small;\"><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Rule 431(b) places the duty on the trial judge, not on the prosecutor or defense, to pose the specific questions set for in the rule to insure that the prospective jurors understand and accept the Zehr principles.&#8221; [See: People v Zehr, 103 Ill. 2d 472, 469 N.E.2d 1062 (1984)]\u00a0 Moreover, per the opinion of Justice Hall in People v Lyndell Graham, No. 1-08-0444\u00a0 7\/20\/09, &#8220;it is\u00a0the court&#8217;s responsibility to enforce the rules as written.&#8221; Thus substantial compliance is not good enough and a\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1248836092_0\" class=\"yshortcuts\">harmless error analysis<\/span> is not warranted. New trial ordered. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.il.us\/court\/Opinions\/AppellateCourt\/2009\/1stDistrict\/July\/1080444.pdf\">Read the opinion here.<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"1b47c59e335185ca6d8a1c2652029cd1\" class=\"aol_ad_footer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Rule 431(b) places the duty on the trial judge, not on the prosecutor or defense, to pose the specific questions set for in the rule to insure that the prospective jurors understand and accept the Zehr principles.&#8221; [See: People v Zehr, 103 Ill. 2d 472, 469 N.E.2d 1062 (1984)]\u00a0 Moreover, per the opinion of Justice [&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-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","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=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}