Opinion ID: 2088581
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: testimony regarding the victim's family

Text: Defendant contends that testimony by the victim's brother regarding the victim's family denied defendant a fair trial. We find that defendant waived this issue for review by failing to object to such testimony at trial and by failing to include this issue in his written post-trial motion. ( Enoch, 122 Ill.2d at 185-87, 119 Ill.Dec. 265, 522 N.E.2d 1124.) Furthermore, defendant claims that defense counsel's failure to preserve this issue on the record constituted ineffective assistance of counsel. We already addressed this claim, supra, and found it had no merit. Finally, the criterion for determining whether plain error has occurred with respect to this testimony or counsel's alleged failure to object to it does not apply since the evidence in this case is not closely balanced nor is the contended error of such magnitude that defendant was denied a fair and impartial trial. Mack, 105 Ill.2d at 125, 85 Ill.Dec. 281, 473 N.E.2d 880; Smalley, 122 Ill.App.3d at 76-77, 77 Ill.Dec. 562, 460 N.E.2d 866.