People v. Dunivant

On April 25, 1979, the defendant, Mark Dunivant, was charged by information with the offense of armed robbery (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 38, par. 18 — 2). Along with Dunivant, the State also charged William Harris and Robert Box with the same offense. The trial court granted Dunivant’s motion to sever. Box and Harris were subsequently convicted of robbery, and a fourth man, Albert Gray, who was separately charged, was acquitted by a jury. The trial court granted the State’s pretrial motion in limine to restrict the defendant’s cross-examination of the victim, Patrick Jones, regarding his…