People v. Koba
| Decision Date | 15 November 1977 |
| Docket Number | No. 76-265,76-265 |
| Citation | 13 Ill.Dec. 306,371 N.E.2d 1,55 Ill.App.3d 298 |
| Parties | , 13 Ill.Dec. 306 PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Carey KOBA, Defendant-Appellant. |
| Court | United States Appellate Court of Illinois |
James J. Doherty, Public Defender, Chicago (Timothy P. O'Neill, John Thomas Moran, Chicago, of counsel), for defendant-appellant.
Bernard Carey, State's Atty., Chicago (Joan S. Cherry, Pamela L. Gray, Asst. State's Atty., of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.
Defendant brings this appeal from an order of the circuit court revoking his probation (Ill.Rev.Stat.1975, ch. 38, par. 1005-6-4) and sentencing him to serve a term of 31/3 to 10 years, less credit for time already served on probation.
On appeal, defendant argues that he was denied his right to due process of law when he was not offered immunity from the use, at his subsequent criminal trial, of any testimony he might have given in his own behalf at his probation revocation hearing. 1
In August of 1974, defendant pleaded guilty to a charge of aggravated battery and was placed on five years probation (Ill.Rev.Stat.1973, ch. 38, par. 1005-6-1), the first year to be served as periodic imprisonment (Ill.Rev.Stat.1973, ch. 38, par. 1005-7-1). In March of 1975, the same judge who had accepted the guilty plea modified defendant's probation, ordering him incarcerated until August of 1975, when he was found to have violated his probation by absenting himself from the House of Corrections for an unauthorized period of time. Defendant's probation was again modified in June of 1975. The court ordered him released from custody so that he might move to Pennsylvania where his mother and sister, who resided there, had secured a job for him. The court ordered defendant's probation transferred to the appropriate authorities in Pennsylvania. 2 Defendant was then released from custody and moved to Pennsylvania.
On August 11, 1975, defendant was arrested in Chicago with three other persons for offering to sell 76 sticks of cyclonate, described as an explosive, dynamite-like substance, and dynamite caps to two undercover policemen. 3 On August 13, 1975, the state filed a petition to have defendant's probation revoked.
The court denied defendant's motion to strike the state's petition based on the court's alleged lack of jurisdiction stemming from the "transfer" of defendant's probation to the state of Pennsylvania. The court also denied a defense motion to postpone the hearing on the petition until after defendant's trial on the underlying criminal charges.
The state presented evidence that defendant and the others, who were riding in a car bearing Pennsylvania license plates, had approached a number of youths on a street corner and offered to sell them the cyclonate at a price of five dollars per stick, plus five dollars for a detonating cap. One witness testified that defendant had even opened the trunk of the car and exhibited the explosives to him. The youths informed police of the encounter, who then arranged for the offer to sell the explosives to undercover policemen, leading eventually to defendant's arrest.
The defendant presented no evidence at the hearing and did not testify in his own behalf. Following the arguments of counsel, defendant's probation was revoked.
I.
Although counsel for the defendant strenuously argued at least five theories of defense in the court below, 4 the only argument raised in this appeal is that he should have been offered use immunity for any testimony he might have given at the probation revocation hearing. Defendant contends that the failure to offer use immunity forced him to make a "Hobson's choice." Either not testifying at the hearing, which would enhance the probability that his probation would be revoked; or testifying at the hearing, by which he would effectively waive his fifth amendment right against self-incrimination. The latter would assist the state in building its case against him at his later trial on the underlying criminal charges and thus enhance the probability of his conviction. In support of this position, defendant relies primarily on Simmons v. United States (1968), 390 U.S. 377, 88 S.Ct. 967, 19 L.Ed.2d 1247; Garrity v. New Jersey (1967), 385 U.S. 493, 87 S.Ct. 616, 17 L.Ed.2d 562; Spevack v. Klein (1967), 385 U.S. 511, 87 S.Ct. 625, 17 L.Ed.2d 574; Lefkowitz v. Turley (1973), 414 U.S. 70, 94 S.Ct. 316, 38 L.Ed.2d 274; People v. Coleman (1975), 13 Cal.3d 867, 120 Cal.Rptr. 384, 533 P.2d 1024; Melson v. Sard (1968), 131 U.S.App.D.C. 102, 402 F.2d 653, and United States ex rel. Carioscia v. Meisner (N.D.Ill.1971), 331 F.Supp. 635.
We have reviewed the cited cases carefully and conclude that Simmons, Garrity, Spevack and Turley are factually distinguishable from the instant case. We also note that while Coleman, Melson, and Meisner generally support the proposition argued, none of those cases is binding on Illinois courts. The issue has yet to be resolved in Illinois.
However, our review of the record reveals that defendant never raised the issue of use immunity in the trial curt. On September 4, 1975, prior to the hearing on the state's petition for revocation of defendant's probation, counsel for defendant filed two pleadings designated "State Habeas Corpus Petition" and "Motion to Object to Proceeding on Violation of Probation." Neither of these pleadings raised the use immunity issue. Counsel did not request a grant of use immunity from the court during the hearing, nor did he argue the point during his closing argument to the court. In oral argument before this court, defendant's counsel acknowledged that this issue was not raised in the trial court.
A reviewing court will not consider matters not of record which...
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