{"id":767,"date":"2010-01-08T11:56:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T17:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/blog\/?p=767"},"modified":"2010-01-08T11:56:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T17:56:31","slug":"so-you-think-we-have-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/01\/08\/so-you-think-we-have-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"SO YOU THINK WE HAVE PROBLEMS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small; color: #000000; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">After the State rested at a DUI trial, the defense made a motion for a <span id=\"lw_1262973167_0\" style=\"CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed\">directed verdict<\/span>. The <span id=\"lw_1262973167_1\">trial court<\/span> in Will County heard arguments on the motion and found the defendant guilty as charged. The <span id=\"lw_1262973167_2\" style=\"CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed\">Public Defender<\/span> remained silent until the motion for a new trail at which time he noted\u00a0in his written motion that defendant had been denied his right to present a defense and <span id=\"lw_1262973167_3\" style=\"BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none\">closing argument<\/span>. The <span id=\"lw_1262973167_4\">Appellate Court<\/span> in the Third District grants a new trial at which defendant should be allowed the right to present a defense! \u00a0If you don&#8217;t believe this you can read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.il.us\/court\/Opinions\/AppellateCourt\/2009\/3rdDistrict\/December\/3080618.pdf\">People v Jeffrey Faint, No. 08-0618.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the State rested at a DUI trial, the defense made a motion for a directed verdict. The trial court in Will County heard arguments on the motion and found the defendant guilty as charged. The Public Defender remained silent until the motion for a new trail at which time he noted\u00a0in his written motion [&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-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","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=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}