Court Opinion

ID: 9862246
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 01:04:55.256585+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:24:40.064488
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE McNULTY, dissenting: The videotape that prosecutors seek to use against defendant in this case shows that defendant exercised his right to silence once the interviewing officer reminded defendant of his Miranda rights. The trial judge found that the defendant’s response to the warnings showed a substantial possibility that he had become unaware of the full range of his constitutional rights by the time the videotaping began. See Garcia, 165 Ill. 2d at 426. The judge concluded that the Miranda warnings, last given 18 hours before the videotaping, had grown stale. The finding accords with the manifest weight of the evidence. The failure to repeat the warnings before beginning to videotape, under the circumstances of this case, violated Miranda. Therefore, the trial court correctly disallowed the videotape as part of the prosecution’s case-in-chief. I would affirm the trial court’s decision. I respectfully dissent.