Court Opinion

ID: 9728001
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 13:54:55.717201+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:25:44.908081
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE McDADE, dissenting: The majority has affirmed the judgments of conviction imposed by the Peoria County Circuit Court, finding that the court’s failure to comply with the requirements of the 2007 version of Illinois Supreme Court Rule 431(b) (eff. May 1, 2007) does not satisfy the “plain error” test and, therefore, does not require that the conviction be reversed and the matter remanded for a new trial. I dissent from this judgment for the reasons stated in my dissent in People v. Alexander, 396 Ill. App. 3d 563 (2009). Because I would reverse the convictions, I do not reach the extended-term sentencing issue raised by the defendant.