People v. Flores

Defendant, Esteban Flores, appeals his conviction of murder entered in the circuit court of Kane County. Defendant contends that the trial court erred in refusing to give his tendered instruction on the lesser included offense of voluntary manslaughter and in admitting hearsay evidence of the decedent’s state of mind.

The victim was defendant’s wife, Virginia Flores. Defendant and decedent had been married for approximately 10 years at the time of the killing and lived in Aurora with their six-year-old daughter, Marissa, and David Marquez, decedent’s son from a previous marriage. Apparently,…