Court Opinion

ID: 9540905
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:20:42.707196+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:01:36.823128
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PRESIDING JUSTICE LINDBERG, specially concurring: I agree with the majority that the State met it’s burden of rebuttal by establishing race-neutral bases for it’s challenge of the venireperson. I join in affirming the judgment of the circuit court of Kane County. However, I would decline to review the trial court’s finding that defendant established a prima facie case of racial discrimination as it is an issue not necessary to our resolution of the judgment of the circuit court. In People v. Brown (1987), 152 Ill. App. 3d 996, 505 N.E.2d 397, it was similarly unnecessary to address that issue and, as the majority notes, Brown’s resolution of that issue is dictum. (166 Ill. App. 3d at 127.) A reviewing court will ordinarily not consider questions or contentions which are not essential to the determination or final disposition of the cause before it. People v. Berlin (1978), 58 Ill. App. 3d 612, 616, 374 N.E.2d 948, rev’d on other grounds (1979), 75 Ill. 2d 266, 388 N.E.2d 412.