People v. Hulitt

After a jury found defendant Calandra Hulitt guilty of the first degree murder of her daughter Moneka Powell, the circuit court sentenced her to 30 years’ imprisonment. The court denied defendant’s posttrial motion for a new trial and defendant appeals, arguing that the court erred in barring defendant from presenting expert testimony that defendant suffered from postpartum depression at the time of the offense. We affirm.

Two-and-a-half-year-old Moneka died in the early morning of July 7, 1999. Defendant had delivered her third child, Moneka’s brother, six days prior and wanted to get some…