People v. Taglia

Defendant, Samuel Taglia, along with a co-defendant, John Sellinger, was found guilty of possession of burglary tools (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 38, par. 19 — 2) by a Lake County jury. Taglia was sentenced to a one- to three-year term to run consecutively with a sentence imposed in an unrelated case.

Prior to trial, the defendant succeeded by motion in limine to limit prosecutorial references to the defendant as a “known burglar” and use of evidence of the defendant’s prior bad acts.

At trial Arthur Walker, a former Lake Forest police officer, testified that on November 25, 1975, at…