People v. Rivera

ILLINOIS OFFICIAL REPORTS Appellate Court People v. Rivera,

2011 IL App (2d) 091060

Appellate Court THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Caption JUAN A. RIVERA, JR., Defendant-Appellant. District & No. Second District Docket No. 2-09-1060 Filed December 9, 2011 Held Defendant’s conviction for first-degree murder was reversed, (Note: This syllabus notwithstanding defendant’s confession, since the State failed to establish constitutes no part of the offense aliunde the confession, there was no physical evidence linking the opinion of the court defendant to the offense, and…