They activated their emergency equipment and followed the car until defendant, who was driving, opened his door and slipped half out of the car, lost control of it, and hit a tree. Jackson then notified the police that he had seen his daughter's car.ĭetective Salemme testified that he and his partner, Detective Maher, received a call that same morning and caught up with K.E.'s car. At a stop sign, Jackson saw defendant get out from the passenger side and motion to Jackson that he should turn in a different direction. Jackson followed the car through several neighboring streets. Jackson, testified that he was driving his wife to work when he saw K.E.'s car being driven through the parking lot of a currency exchange. The next morning around 6 a.m., K.E.'s father, Mr. She banged on her apartment door and awoke her mother. She estimated that the entire attack lasted about 25 minutes. Collins held a knife to K.E.'s neck and penetrated her orally from the front, while Lendarrow Johnson penetrated her vaginally from behind.Īs the codefendants attacked her, she heard the sound of a car horn, and Collins and Lendarrow fled. on her hands and knees and assaulted her simultaneously. Then, the other two codefendants forced K.E.
While codefendant Collins stood behind K.E., defendant, gun in hand, penetrated K.E. Finding no money in her purse, the men pushed her to the ground, went through her pockets and the defendant struck her in the mouth with the gun while the codefendants kicked her. She noticed that the gun bore an insignia that looked like musical notes. The defendant put a gun to her temple and told her to give up her purse. As she began walking toward her apartment building, three men approached her. testified that she parked her car near her home. The following facts were adduced at trial.
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The trial court denied the suppression motion. Since both statements were made at the same time to the same officer, the trial court heard the motion to suppress both statements together. On appeal, defendant argues that: (1) lack of DNA elimination testing rendered the State's expert's opinion unreliable and inadmissible (2) the trial court erred by preventing defense counsel from cross-examining a witness about defendant's written confession to another crime (3) the acquittal of one of his two codefendants constitutes a verdict inconsistent with defendant's own convictions, requiring reversal of defendant's conviction and (4) the trial court abused its sentencing discretion by improperly considering multiple convictions for the same act and victim impact testimony from family members.ĭefendant Jermaine Johnson, along with his brother, Lendarrow Johnson, and Devon Collins, was arrested and charged with armed robbery, aggravated vehicular hijacking, and aggravated criminal sexual assault in connection with the August 5, 1994, robbery and rape of the female victim, K.E.ĭefendant filed a pretrial motion to suppress two statements: an oral statement he made concerning the instant case and a written statement he made concerning the separate armed robbery of Tyree Johnson which occurred shortly before his arrest. The trial court denied defendant's posttrial motion and this appeal follows. Defendant and Collins were sentenced to two consecutive terms of 25 and 11 years for the sexual assaults and a concurrent 25-year term for the armed robbery.
Codefendant Lendarrow Johnson was acquitted. Fry, Cook County Public Defender, Chicago, (Andrea Monsees, Assistant Public Defender, of counsel), for Defendant-Appellant.įollowing a joint bench trial, defendant Jermaine Johnson and codefendant Devon Collins were convicted on two counts of armed robbery and six counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault. Jones and Julie Line Bailey, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellee. Devine, State's Attorney of Cook County, Chicago, (Renee Goldfarb and Barbara L. The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v.
Appellate Court of Illinois,First District, Second Division.
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