People v. Nicholas

The defendant, Marcel Nicholas, was questioned and later arrested in connection with the shooting death of his mother outside their apartment. The defendant made a court-reported inculpatory statement 35 hours after his arrest. He was presented to the trial court for a probable cause hearing five hours later, 40 hours after his arrest.

A jury convicted the defendant of first degree murder, and the circuit court of Cook County sentenced him to 35 years’ imprisonment. The appellate court reversed his conviction and sentence, holding in part that the delay between the defendant’s arrest and…