People v. Blaylock

Docket No. 89082–Agenda 11–September 2002.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. CAMERUN BLAYLOCK, Appellant.

Opinion filed November 21, 2002.

This case presents us with a unique set of circumstances. The original issue raised before this court is whether the State could retry defendant for first degree murder where the trial exhibits from defendant’s first trial, allegedly favorable to defendant, were lost by the circuit clerk of Vermilion County. After this issue was fully briefed by both parties, but before oral arguments, the missing box of trial exhibits were found in the…