People v. Pruitt

A jury in the circuit court of McHenry County convicted defendant, Charles Pruitt, of the offense of resisting a peace officer (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 38, par. 31 — 1). Defendant appeals, contending that the State failed to prove that the officers’ attempt to arrest the defendant was an authorized act and that numerous instances of alleged misconduct by the prosecutor denied him a fair trial.

Defendant was lying on his living room couch watching television in the early afternoon of December 19, 1986. Deputy Randall Messamore of the McHenry County sheriff's department met defendant’s son,…