{"id":849,"date":"2010-03-24T07:57:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T13:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/blog\/?p=849"},"modified":"2010-03-24T07:58:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T13:58:33","slug":"other-crimes-evidence-contained-within-defendants-statements-requires-new-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/24\/other-crimes-evidence-contained-within-defendants-statements-requires-new-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;OTHER CRIMES&#8221; EVIDENCE CONTAINED WITHIN DEFENDANT&#8217;S STATEMENTS REQUIRES NEW TRIAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Defandant Lewis Jackson&#8217;s disabled aunt, Doris, \u00a0was found dead in her apartment having been stabbed over 30 times.\u00a0 There was no sign of forced entry. Mr. Jackson lived with Doris in her apartment. During his three days in police custody in Harvey, Mr. Jackson gave six different statements to police and prosecutors. The statements contained facts about defendant&#8217;s use of narcotics during the\u00a0night before and day of the homicide.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Our Appellete <span id=\"lw_1269438861_0\" style=\"BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none\">Court orders<\/span> a new trial because the parts of the defendant&#8217;s statements regarding narcotics use constituted improper &#8220;other crimes&#8221; evidence. &#8220;[T]he prosecution did not present sufficient preliminary evidence to permit introduction of Jackson&#8217;s drug use as proof of his motive to kill Doris.&#8221; \u00a0Although not properly objected to, the evidence constituted plain error as the\u00a0evidence was closely balanced.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.il.us\/court\/Opinions\/AppellateCourt\/2010\/1stDistrict\/March\/1043660.pdf\">People v <span id=\"lw_1269438861_1\" style=\"CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed\">Lewis Jackson<\/span>, No.1-04-3660, Third Div 3\/10\/2010.<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defandant Lewis Jackson&#8217;s disabled aunt, Doris, \u00a0was found dead in her apartment having been stabbed over 30 times.\u00a0 There was no sign of forced entry. Mr. Jackson lived with Doris in her apartment. During his three days in police custody in Harvey, Mr. Jackson gave six different statements to police and prosecutors. The statements contained [&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-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","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=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}