People v. Robinson

Illinois Appellate Court
Criminal Court
Murder
Citation
Case Number: 
2018 IL App (1st) 153319
Decision Date: 
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
District: 
1st Dist.
Division/County: 
Cook Co., 2d Div,
Holding: 
Affirmed.
Justice: 
HYMAN

Defendant was convicted, after jury trial, of several counts of attempted 1st degree murder. Any weakness in testimony of state ballistics expert, as to her expert opinion linking several cartridge casings found along route to handgun found near Defendant, could have been brought out on cross-examination, and goes to weight of evidence, not its admissibility. Defendant was properly sentenced as a habitual criminal, based on his prior 2 convictions for armed robbery from 1992 and 1996 as qualifying convictions. No evidence that legislature wanted to remove armed robbery from list of possible qualifying convictions for a habitual criminal.(PUCINSKI and MASON, concurring.)