People v. Brown

Defendant was convicted, after jury trial, of armed robbery and aggravated robbery.Circuit court did not fail to exercise its judicial discretion in finding Defendant fit to stand trial. Court did not commit plain error in setting case for trial without conducting a fitness hearing. Record shows that neither the parties nor the trial court had a bona fide doubt of Defendant's fitness. The act of granting a defendant's motion for a fitness examination cannot, by itself, be construed as a definitive showing that the court found a bona fide doubt of the defendant's fitness. (A. BURKE, KILBRIDE, GARMAN, KARMEIER, THEIS, and NEVILLE, concurring.)