People v. Cofield

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE STAMOS

delivered tire opinion of the court:

Defendant, Calvin Cofield, was charged with contributing to the sexual delinquency of a child. * He waived trial by jury, and the judge found him guilty. He was sentenced to the Cook County House of Correction for a term of six months.

Defendant now appeals his conviction and raises these issues for our review: (1) whether the trial judge erred in abandoning his role of impartial judge and assuming the role of prosecutor to an extreme degree, and in intimidating a thirteen-year-old witness; (2) whether the trial judge erred in…