Court Opinion

ID: 9717474
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 07:04:02.575106+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:53.332420
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE HOPKINS, specially concurring: Although I concur in the majority’s decision to reverse defendant’s conviction, I disagree with the majority’s inference that People v. Buening, 229 Ill. App. 3d 538 (1992), has some diminished value because it relied on other courts’ opinions. As Justice Steigmann indicates in his special concurrence in People v. Kirk, 289 Ill. App. 3d 326, 335 (1997), we ought to rely on “other court’s opinions” when they are well reasoned and when those opinions have exhaustively examined the available literature in the scientific community. HGN testing has had innumerable Frye hearings, as Buening observed, and if the foundation of the police officer’s training is clearly established, it is a step backward to require a Frye hearing in the retrial of this case.