{"id":852,"date":"2010-04-05T08:34:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T14:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/blog\/?p=852"},"modified":"2010-04-05T08:34:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T14:34:06","slug":"jury-guilty-verdict-of-murder-reversed-on-reasonable-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/04\/05\/jury-guilty-verdict-of-murder-reversed-on-reasonable-doubt\/","title":{"rendered":"JURY GUILTY VERDICT OF MURDER REVERSED ON REASONABLE DOUBT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>In an interesting opinion by\u00a0 recently appointed JUSTICE <span id=\"lw_1270477638_4\" style=\"BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none\">LAVIN<\/span>, our <span id=\"lw_1270477638_5\" style=\"BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none\">Appellate Court<\/span> finds that defendant&#8217;s conviction for murder and 36 years IDOC sentence\u00a0based on the theory of accontability must be reversed because there was a total absence of evidence\u00a0against the alleged actual offenders. Justice LAVIN joined by J Toomin and Howse finds that the <span id=\"lw_1270477638_6\">trial court<\/span> [J Gaughn] should have granted defendant&#8217;s motion for a <span id=\"lw_1270477638_7\" style=\"BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed\">directed verdict<\/span>.\u00a0 Read all about it at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.il.us\/court\/Opinions\/AppellateCourt\/2010\/1stDistrict\/March\/1083499.pdf\">People v Shawn Garrett<\/a>, 1-08-3499 3\/26\/10.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 In an interesting opinion by\u00a0 recently appointed JUSTICE LAVIN, our Appellate Court finds that defendant&#8217;s conviction for murder and 36 years IDOC sentence\u00a0based on the theory of accontability must be reversed because there was a total absence of evidence\u00a0against the alleged actual offenders. Justice LAVIN joined by J Toomin and Howse finds that the [&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-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","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=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}