The People v. Brown

Defendant Lennette Brown and James Kyler were jointly indicted for the murder of Jerome Giza. A severance was granted, and defendant is here on writ of error to the criminal court of Cook County where he was found guilty by a jury and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of 199 years.

Defendant contends that he was denied a fair trial because an allegedly coerced confession of the defendant was not excluded by the trial court, the prosecutor exceeded the bounds of proper-cross-examination and impeachment, and because the prosecutor’s closing argument was improper and prejudicial.

The…