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Robert Ely v. Illinois
Paid petition · Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District, No. 4-24-0884 · judgment June 3, 2025
Certiorari denied · May 26, 2026
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
Whether a court should evaluate a claim for substantial prejudice due to prosecutorial misconduct in the closing arguments by the standard articulated by the Illinois Appellate Court that “guilt did not rely solely on these (improper) comments”?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
William Peter Wolf
The Law Office of William Wolf, LLC
For respondent
Katherine Marie Doersch
Office of the Illinois Attorney General
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- May 26 2026Petition DENIED.
- May 05 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/21/2026.
- May 04 2026Waiver of right of respondent Illinois to respond filed.
- Feb 24 2026Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 28, 2026)