# People v. Brown

> Appellate Court of Illinois · February 23, 2009 · 388 Ill. App. 3d 1

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9520514

## Case

- **Full name:** The PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. DENNIS BROWN, Defendant-Appellant
- **Court:** Appellate Court of Illinois
- **Decided:** February 23, 2009
- **Citations:** 388 Ill. App. 3d 1; 328 Ill. Dec. 203; 903 N.E.2d 863; 2009 Ill. App. LEXIS 78
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Wolfson
- **Judges:** Garcia, Wolfson, Gordon, Robert
- **Cited by:** 15 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- noting that a statement regarding the plaintiffs “abusive behavior [and] bizarre management style ... clearly are not actionable opinions”

## Opinion text

JUSTICE WOLFSON, specially concurring:
I agree with Justice Garcia’s careful analysis of the case law and with his “observations” of the trial court’s voir dire procedure. The civics lesson conducted by the trial judge in the presence of prospective jurors should not have happened.
The question then becomes whether the trial judge’s conduct was in error. We cannot conduct a plain error analysis until we find there was an error. See People v. Sims, 192 Ill. 2d 592, 621 (2000). Because I am unable to conclude an error was committed, I concur in the result reached by Justice Garcia.

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