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THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2017
Appellate Court affirms conviction for 2011 armed robbery Defendant sentenced to natural life as habitual criminal
DuPage County State’s Attor- arguments, the Appellate Court reveal clear and obvious errors of defendant’s trial and challenged the judgment of the Court with Justices ney Robert B. Berlin announced found that: “Our review of the any sort, let alone such seriousness integrity of the judicial process.” Hutchinson and Jorgensen concurlast week that the Second District complained-of arguments does not that they affected the fairness of the Justice McLaren delivered the ring. Appellate Court of Illinois has affirmed the Armed Robbery with a Firearm conviction of Luis Moreta, 46, formerly of Northlake for stealing $3,700 from a man he met on Craigslist. On Dec.5, 2014, a jury found Moreta guilty of Armed Robbery with a Firearm, a Class X Felony. On March 30, 2015, Judge John Kinsella sentenced Moreta as a habitual criminal to a term of natural life in prison. On Dec. 2, 2011, the victim drove to meet Moreta in the parking lot of an Addison apartment complex to purchase a motorcycle he had seen advertised by Moreta on Craigslist. After meeting one of Moreta’s accomplices, the victim and two friends of his were escorted to the back of the parking lot where Moreta and another man, both with their faces covered and wearing hooded sweatshirts, jumped out of a van and held guns to the heads of the victims. Moreta and his accomplices then robbed the victim of the $3,700 he had brought to purchase the motorcycle and fled the scene. In his appeal, Moreta argued that the trial court improperly allowed a police officer to testify about cellular technology and that the State argued improperly during closing arguments. In its affirmation, the To celebrate a summer full of reading, Appellate Court found that the listening and telling, Mr. Omar threw a officer “did not testify about ‘celbubble party for the young people like lular technology’ … nor did he this little girl, who attend Baby and Tod‘interpret’ cellular phone records. dler Story Times at the Addison Public He merely plotted the information Library, which he leads. The program from cellular records onto several will discontinue as the summer ends maps.” and kids head back to school. SUBMITTED PHOTO Addison Independent In rejecting Moreta’s claims concerning the State’s closing
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