People v. Logan , 2011 IL App (1st) 93582 ( 2011 )

ILLINOIS OFFICIAL REPORTS
Appellate Court
People v. Logan, 2011 IL App (1st) 093582Appellate Court THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v.
Caption LEONARD LOGAN, Defendant-Appellant.
District & No. First District, First Division
Docket No. 1–09–3582
Filed June 27, 2011
Held The appellate court upheld the trial court’s denial of defendant’s
(Note: This syllabus postconviction petition following a third-stage evidentiary hearing after
constitutes no part of his conviction for first-degree murder was affirmed on appeal where
the opinion of the court polygraph evidence related to a witness was admitted only after she
but has been prepared testified that her statement and grand jury testimony implicating
by the Reporter of defendant had been coerced, the evidence was used as a shield, not as a
Decisions for the sword, no one objected to the trial court’s decision to defer giving a
convenience of the limiting instruction until the close of the trial, the instructions sufficiently
reader.)
informed the jury that it was not to speculate as to the results of the
polygraph examinations, defendant’s trial counsel made a strategic
decision not to tender a limiting instruction, and defendant did not object
to the prosecutor’s argument that the witness confessed after failing her
second polygraph examination.
Decision Under Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County, No. 97–CR–19288; the
Review Hon. James Obbish, Judge, presiding.
Judgment Affirmed.