Justice SLATER delivered the opinion of the court:
A jury convicted the defendant, Jermaine Ammons, of first degree murder. He was thereafter sentenced to 50 years imprisonment. He appeals, alleging the trial court erred by allowing the State to replay an audiotape of his statement to the police during rebuttal closing argument. We reverse.
The record of the trial shows that on October 13, 1991, two of the State's witnesses were riding around Joliet in a Chevrolet...
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