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PEOPLE v. PEARSON

No. 1-03-3550.

826 N.E.2d 1099 (2005)

356 Ill. App.3d 390

292 Ill.Dec. 663

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Terant PEARSON, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Second Division.

March 31, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Pelletier, Deputy Defender, and Elizabeth Monkus, Assistant Appellate Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago, for Appellant.

Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney of Cook County, Chicago (Renee Goldfarb, Margaret J. Campos, and Sally Dilgart, of counsel), for Appellee.

Justice WOLFSON delivered the opinion of the court:

As of the moment they were selected and sworn, the twelve jurors who decided this case had not heard the words "presumption of innocence." Nor had they heard the defendant had no duty to present evidence or that the defendant could not be penalized for declining to testify. The question is this: Did the trial court's failure to address these basic principles threaten the integrity of the judicial process? We hold...

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