People v. Cannon

PRESIDING JUSTICE WOLFSON

delivered the opinion of the court:

In this murder case Darryl Cannon is asking for the opportunity to prove his confession was the product of torture by police officers from Area 2 Headquarters in Chicago.

Cannon was tried in 1984 for his involvement in the October 26, 1983, murder of Darren Ross. He had moved to suppress his confession, but the motion was denied. On appeal from that conviction, the denial of Cannon’s motion to suppress was affirmed, but his case was remanded to the trial court for a hearing on the prosecutor’s use of peremptory challenges to exclude…