People v. Maberry

Following a jury trial, defendant Scott Maberry was found guilty of aggravated criminal sexual assault and home invasion and sentenced to concurrent 12-year prison terms for each offense with three years’ supervisory release. Defendant raises five issues on appeal: (1) whether the trial court erred in admitting statements of identification of the defendant by the victim and the police as corroborative complaints and thereby denied defendant a fair trial; (2) whether the prosecutor’s repeated misstatements of the evidence during closing argument denied defendant a fair trial; (3) whether…