People v. Sanchez

Illinois Appellate Court
Civil Court
Evidence
Citation
Case Number: 
No. 1-08-3458
Decision Date: 
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
District: 
1st Dist.
Division/County: 
Cook Co., 2d Div.
Holding: 
Reversed and remanded.
Justice: 
HOFFMAN
Ten-year time limit for admissibility of prior convictions should not include the MSR period. Defendant was denied effective assistance of counsel when his counsel allowed State to impeach him with evidence of his conviction which was more than 10 years old, and counsel either failed to investigate the details of that conviction or was aware of them and misapprehended the law. (CUNNINGHAM and THEIS, concurring.)