Court Opinion

ID: 9520514
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 01:41:36.062489+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:46:21.215042
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE WOLFSON, specially concurring: I agree with Justice Garcia’s careful analysis of the case law and with his “observations” of the trial court’s voir dire procedure. The civics lesson conducted by the trial judge in the presence of prospective jurors should not have happened. The question then becomes whether the trial judge’s conduct was in error. We cannot conduct a plain error analysis until we find there was an error. See People v. Sims, 192 Ill. 2d 592, 621 (2000). Because I am unable to conclude an error was committed, I concur in the result reached by Justice Garcia.