Opinion ID: 2162437
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Heading: Additional Claim of Trial Error

Text: Defendant's final claim of trial error involves the failure of the sheriff's department to remove defendant's prisoner identification bracelet prior to the start of jury selection. We decline to consider this claim of error, as it is not likely to arise on retrial. See People v. Emerson, 97 Ill.2d 487, 502, 74 Ill.Dec. 11, 455 N.E.2d 41 (1983). Defendant wore the bracelet for a very short time during the voir dire portion of the guilt phase of trial and did not wear it during any other portion of the trial or sentencing proceedings. The parties do not dispute that the failure to remove the identification bracelet was an inadvertent oversight that was immediately corrected when called to the trial court's attention.