People v. Davidson

PRESIDING JUSTICE HARRISON

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an interlocutory appeal by the People from two orders which the circuit court of Madison County entered during trial. The People raise three issues for review: first, whether the trial court was without authority after trial had commenced to rule on motions raising issues collateral to a determination of the defendant’s guilt or innocence; second, whether the trial court violated principles of collateral estoppel in barring testimony by a State’s witness; and third, whether the trial court’s orders were substantively…