Court Opinion

ID: 9527496
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 03:31:04.686288+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:25:49.664181
License: Public Domain

MR. JUSTICE GOLDENHERSH, dissenting: I dissent. The appellate court correctly decided this case and I would affirm its judgment. The majority bases the reversal on the failure of the defendant to provide the transcript of the closing arguments. It is apparent from the portions of the argument quoted in the opinion, the accuracy of which is not questioned, that prejudicial error occurred. If the People contend that for some reason some portion of the argument not reproduced excused the prejudicial and unwarranted comments made by the prosecution, it was incumbent upon the People to produce, by the method provided in Rule 323(c) (58 Ill. 2d R. 323(c)), that portion of the argument upon which it relies. The effect of the majority opinion is to shift to the defendant a burden which was clearly that of the People.