People v. Santiago

PRESIDING JUSTICE GARCIA

delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion.

Justice McBride concurred in the judgment and opinion.

Justice Robert E. Gordon specially concurred, with opinion.

OPINION

Defendant Diego Santiago seeks plain error review of two issues following his conviction of first degree murder after a jury trial. He first contends the State violated the evidentiary rule that bars the introduction of prior consistent statements when it introduced two prior statements inconsistent with the defendant’s accomplices’ trial testimony, a claim he admits was recently addressed and rejected…