People v. Center

PRESIDING JUSTICE McMORROW

delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a jury trial, defendant was convicted of burglary and sentenced to a term of 15 years’ imprisonment. On appeal, he contends (1) that he was denied a fair trial by (a) the admission of hearsay testimony which insinuated previous criminal activity by him and (b) the prosecutor’s repeated references to a co-offender as a “juvenile”; and (2) that his sentence was excessive.

At trial, Officer Klodnicki testified that on November 8, 1986, he and his partner, Officer Gajewski, responded to a call of a burglary in progress at a…