2014 IL App (2d) 121203 No. 2-12-1203 Opinion filed August 5, 2014 ______________________________________________________________________________

IN THE APPELLATE COURT OF ILLINOIS

SECOND DISTRICT ______________________________________________________________________________

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE ) Appeal from the Circuit Court OF ILLINOIS, ) of Du Page County. ) Plaintiff-Appellee, ) ) v. ) No. 12-CF-697 ) BERNARD THOMAS, ) Honorable ) John J. Kinsella, Defendant-Appellant. ) Judge, Presiding. ______________________________________________________________________________

JUSTICE SCHOSTOK delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Justice Spence concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Hudson specially concurred, with opinion.

OPINION

¶1 On September 12, 2013, a jury found the defendant, Bernard Thomas, guilty of one count

of retail theft (720 ILCS 5/16-25(a)(1) (West 2012)). The sole issue raised in this appeal is the constitutional validity of the trial court’s statement to the jury—in response to a written question asking for the legal definition of the term “reasonable doubt”—that “[i]t is for you to determine.”

In arguing that this response violated his due process right to have the State held to the burden of proving his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, the defendant relies on two recent appellate court cases, People v. Turman, 2011 IL App (1st) 091019, and People v. Franklin, 2012 IL App (3d)

100618, which held that it is reversible error per se for a trial court to tell a jury that it must define “reasonable doubt” for itself. We view this holding as questionable under applicable precedent of the United States Supreme Court and the Illinois Supreme Court. We instead hold

2014 IL App (2d) 121203 that a court must consider the totality of the circumstances and determine whether there is a reasonable likelihood that the jury applied a lesser standard than beyond a reasonable doubt. We conclude that this standard is not met here and therefore affirm the defendant’s conviction.

¶2 BACKGROUND

¶3 The defendant was indicted on two counts of felony retail theft. Count I alleged that, on

March 27, 2012, he took several bottles of liquor from a Jewel-Osco store in Elmhurst with the intent to permanently deprive Jewel-Osco of the possession and benefit of the merchandise, having been previously convicted of theft (720 ILCS 5/16-25(a)(1) (West 2010)). Count II alleged the same retail theft, with the added element that the value of the liquor taken was over

$300 (thereby increasing the sentence (720 ILCS 5/16-25(f)(3) (West 2010))).

¶4 The jury trial commenced on September 11, 2012. During jury selection, the trial court

made comments giving the prospective jurors an overview of the case, including the charges and the schedule of the trial. With respect to the State’s burden of proof, the trial court stated that:

the State bore the burden of proving the charges beyond a reasonable doubt; the burden of proof never shifted to the defendant; the defendant was presumed innocent of the charges throughout

the trial; at the end of the trial, if the State did not prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt, the jurors would be required to find the defendant not guilty; and if the jurors found that the State

had sustained its burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt, they would be required to find the defendant guilty. The trial court did not make any comments about the meaning of the term

“reasonable doubt.”

¶5 Nathan Bown, an assistant director for the Osco portion of the Jewel-Osco store, testified

that on February 11, 2012, he noticed that an unusual amount of liquor was missing from one of the shelves in aisle 7. He checked the surveillance video for the day before and saw an African-

American man placing bottles of liquor inside his jacket, which was puffy and black with a furry

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¶6 Rafael Lopez, a Jewel-Osco employee, testified that he was working at the store on

March 31, 2012. About 3 p.m. that day, Lopez saw a man leave the store through the entrance

doors. The man, who walked right past him, was African-American and had a tattoo on his neck, and he was wearing a heavy winter coat with a furry lining, although it was a warm afternoon.

Lopez noticed that he had a big bulge in his midsection. Lopez identified the defendant in court as the man he saw leaving the store on that day and as the man shown in photographs of aisle 7 taken on that day. Lopez continued to watch as the defendant approached the passenger side of a gold four-door vehicle with an older African-American man in the driver’s seat. The defendant

got into the car. As the car drove away, Lopez was behind it and made a note of the number of the license plate, which had a “handicapped” emblem. At trial, he testified that the number was either 117346 or 117396 (he could not tell whether he had written down a “4” or a “9”). Lopez notified his manager.

¶7 On April 1, Bown learned that another potential theft of liquor had occurred on March

31. When he checked the surveillance video for that day, he saw the same man he had seen earlier taking bottles of liquor and then walking out the northwest entrance. As on earlier

occasions, the red lights on the anti-theft towers activated. Bown called the Elmhurst police and gave them the surveillance video and the license plate number observed by Lopez. Lopez was

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2014 IL App (2d) 121203 interviewed by the Elmhurst police, who showed him an array of six photographs. He identified a photograph of the defendant as the man he had seen leaving the store.

¶8 On April 5, Bown saw a man in the store who looked like the suspect in the surveillance videos. The man was pushing a cart containing some liquor bottles. Bown called the police. He then began following the man, whom he identified in court as the defendant. After he followed

the defendant up and down a few aisles, the defendant abandoned his cart and left the store. The defendant did not steal anything on April 5. Bown testified that he later determined, by looking at the video, that on March 27 the defendant had stolen six bottles of Ciroc vodka and three

bottles of Hennessey cognac. Bown also generated a receipt showing the total value of the liquor taken on that date, which exceeded $300 ($38.99 per bottle of Ciroc vodka and $32.99 per bottle of Hennessey cognac).

¶9 Police officer Alexander Kefaloukas of the Elmhurst police department testified that he went to the Jewel-Osco store at about 5:30 p.m. on April 5, 2012, after a report was received

about a potential theft in progress. He met with a store employee who gave him a description of a suspect, which he relayed to other police officers.

¶ 10 Elmhurst police officer Michael Campise testified that he responded to the Jewel-Osco store at about 5:30 p.m. on April 5. While there, he saw an African-American man loitering outside the store. The man walked to a tan Chevy Lumina, which had a license plate with a

“handicapped” emblem and the number 117346, and got in. Campise told other officers to detain the car if it drove away. He later learned that this man was Horace Smith.

¶ 11 Campise received a report that the suspect was leaving the store, and he arrested the defendant. Kefaloukas joined him and they searched the defendant, who was wearing a black

“poofy” jacket with fur on the hood. The defendant had a small amount of change in his pocket but no other money, and no credit or debit cards.

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¶ 12 Elmhurst police officer Edward Coughlin interviewed the defendant at the police station at about 6:30 p.m. He gave the defendant Miranda warnings. The defendant, who had a tattoo on the side of his neck, appeared agitated and said that he had not stolen anything. Coughlin told

him that they were interested in prior incidents, not events at the Jewel-Osco that day. The defendant said that he had been at the store to pick up some things for his wife. Coughlin expressed skepticism, noting that the defendant had only six cents on him when he was brought to the police station. The defendant contended that a police officer on the street had taken his credit card. However, after Coughlin showed the defendant a surveillance DVD and mentioned the dates that the defendant had been seen in the store, the defendant admitted that he had stolen liquor from the store. The defendant stated that Smith would drive him to the store, where he

would take bottles of liquor from the shelf and put them in his jacket. He would then sell the liquor on the street to get money for his heroin habit. His habit cost him about $60 per day.

Coughlin had seen people under the influence of narcotics before and the defendant did not seem to be under the influence at the time of the interview.

¶ 13 After closing arguments, the trial court instructed the jury. As part of the instructions, the trial court gave Illinois Pattern Jury Instructions, Criminal, No. 2.03 (4th ed. Supp. 2009)

(hereinafter, IPI Criminal 4th No. 2.03 (Supp. 2009)):

“The defendant is presumed to be innocent of the charges against him. This presumption remains with him throughout every stage of the trial and during your deliberations on the verdict and is not overcome unless from all the evidence in this case you are convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that he is guilty.

The State has the burden of proving the guilt of the defendant beyond a

reasonable doubt, and this burden remains on the State throughout the case. The defendant is not required to prove his innocence.”

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¶ 14 The jury sent out three notes during its deliberations. Only the second is at issue here.

That note read, “[W]hat is the legal definition of reasonable doubt?” The trial court commented to the parties:

“It’s not the first time I heard that question. I don’t think the law in Illinois has changed, nor the position of the Supreme Court. The only question is how do I wish to word my response. My inclination is to say: It is for you to determine; that is for you to determine.”

The State assented; the defense suggested that the jurors be told that if they wanted to find the defendant not guilty, they should do so. The trial court then consulted the IPI Criminal and noted that it did not recommend any definition. The trial court’s written response read, “It is for you to determine.”

¶ 15 The jury found the defendant guilty of count I and not guilty of count II. On October 12, 2012, the defendant was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment. After his motion to reconsider the sentence was denied, he filed a timely notice of appeal.

¶ 16 ANALYSIS

¶ 17 The sole issue on appeal is whether the trial court violated the defendant’s due process rights through its response to the jury’s note asking for the legal definition of “reasonable doubt.”

The defendant concedes that he did not raise this issue in the trial court (through either a contemporaneous objection or a posttrial motion) and thus the issue is forfeited unless the trial court’s actions amounted to plain error. The plain error doctrine allows a reviewing court to consider unpreserved error when “(1) a clear or obvious error occurred and the evidence is so

closely balanced that the error alone threatened to tip the scales of justice against the defendant, regardless of the seriousness of the error, or (2) a clear or obvious error occurred and that error is so serious that it affected the fairness of the defendant’s trial and challenged the integrity of the 121208

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551, 565 (2007). The first step in determining whether plain error exists is determining whether an error actually occurred. People v. Naylor, 229 Ill. 2d 584, 593 (2008).

¶ 18 The defendant argues that, under Turman and Franklin, the trial court’s response to the jury’s question about the definition of “reasonable doubt”—“It is for you to determine”—was plain error. We begin by setting out the fundamental analysis applicable to this issue, as

expressed by the United States and Illinois Supreme Courts, before turning to an examination of Turman, Franklin, and later decisions.

¶ 19 A. Constitutional Requirements

¶ 20 The requirement to correctly instruct the jury on fundamentals such as the proper burden of proof is of constitutional dimension. “[T]he Due Process Clause protects the accused against

conviction except upon proof beyond a reasonable doubt of every fact necessary to constitute the crime with which he is charged.” In re Winship, 397 U.S. 358, 364 (1970). However, in considering whether a particular jury instruction violated the defendant’s due process rights, “the proper inquiry is not whether the instruction ‘could have’ been applied in an unconstitutional

manner, but whether there is a reasonable likelihood that the jury did so apply it.” (Emphasis in original.) Victor v. Nebraska, 511 U.S. ^[1], 6 (1994).

¶ 21 In 1994, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in Victor, in which it considered whether the jury instructions defining “reasonable doubt” in two state criminal cases violated due process. The Court began by laying out the analytical framework for such claims:

“The beyond a reasonable doubt standard is a requirement of due process, but the Constitution neither prohibits trial courts from defining reasonable doubt nor requires

them to do so as a matter of course. [Citation.] Indeed, so long as the court instructs the jury on the necessity that the defendant’s guilt be proved beyond a reasonable doubt, 121209

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[citation], the Constitution does not require that any particular form of words be used in advising the jury of the government’s burden of proof. [Citation.] Rather, ‘taken as a

whole, the instructions [must] correctly conve[y] the concept of reasonable doubt to the jury.’ ” Id. at 5 (quoting Holland v. United States, 348 U.S. 121, 140 (1954)).

¶ 22 The Court then summarized the key issue: “The constitutional question *** is whether there is a reasonable likelihood that the jury understood the instructions to allow conviction

based on proof insufficient to meet the Winship standard.” Id. at 6. In assessing this likelihood, the court should consider other instructions or comments to the jury that occurred during the trial. See id. at 13, 21-22 (considering the other instructions given during the defendants’ trials, which provided context for the instructions at issue). Thus, the standard to be applied in cases such as the one before us is: taken as a whole, were the instructions to the jury such that there is a reasonable likelihood that the jury understood those instructions as allowing a conviction under a lesser standard than proof beyond a reasonable doubt?

¶ 23 B. Illinois Supreme Court Precedent

¶ 24 There is no dispute that attempts to define the term “reasonable doubt” for jurors are discouraged in Illinois. In People v. Speight, 153 Ill. 2d 365, 374 (1992), the Illinois Supreme

Court commented that “[t]he law in Illinois is clear that neither the court nor counsel should attempt to define the reasonable doubt standard for the jury.” Reflecting this sentiment, there is no recommended jury instruction that would provide such a definition. See Illinois Pattern Jury

Instructions, Criminal, No. 2.05, Committee Note, at 78 (4th ed. 2000) (“The Committee recommends that no instruction be given defining the term “ ‘reasonable doubt.’ ”). 1

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¶ 25 Nevertheless, it is equally clear that providing a jury with a definition of “reasonable doubt” does not necessarily constitute reversible error. A review of Illinois Supreme Court precedent on this issue demonstrates this: typically, the supreme court finds that giving such a definition either is not error or is harmless error. See, e.g., People v. Lucas, 244 Ill. 603, 615

(1910) (expressing no condemnation of the trial court’s instruction that the term means “a serious, substantial doubt and not a mere possibility of a doubt”; supreme court held this

instruction was not error, noting that “reasonable doubt” need not exclude all possibility of doubt, as that state of certainty was almost unattainable in human affairs (internal quotation

marks omitted)); People v. Moses, 288 Ill. 281, 285-86 (1919) (commenting that the giving of lengthy instructions is unnecessary because “there is no better definition of the meaning of the words ‘reasonable doubt’ than the words themselves” but adding that such lengthy definitions are not necessarily reversible error; affirming the conviction); People v. Malmenato, 14 Ill. 2d

52, 61 (1958) (although supreme court discouraged the practice of defining “reasonable doubt,” trial court’s instruction on the topic was not error); Speight, 153 Ill. 2d at 374-75 (although

“neither the court nor counsel should attempt to define the reasonable doubt standard for the jury,” prosecutor’s comments were not reversible error in light of trial court’s immediate admonishment to the jury to disregard the comments).

¶ 26 One of the few supreme court cases to find that an instruction defining reasonable doubt was reversible error is People v. Cagle, 41 Ill. 2d 528, 536 (1969), in which the trial court had prohibits definitions of the term. Victor, 511 U.S. at 5. See also People v. Failor, 271 Ill. App.

3d 968, 971 (1995) (Victor did not conflict with the prevailing practice in Illinois of not defining

“reasonable doubt” and trial court did not err in refusing to provide jurors with a definition of the term).

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from a candid and impartial investigation and consideration of all the evidence in the case and unless it [meets a standard described at some length], it is insufficient to authorize a verdict of not guilty.” (Internal quotation marks omitted.) The supreme court held that this instruction improperly shifted the burden of proof to the defendant by implying that an acquittal must be justified, contrary to the presumption of innocence. In reaching this conclusion, the supreme court noted that it had “repeatedly held that the legal concept of ‘reasonable doubt’ needs no definition.” Id. Nevertheless, giving an instruction on the concept was not necessarily prejudicial or reversible error, so long as the instruction did not improperly minimize the State’s burden of proof or attempt to shift that burden to the defendant. Id.

¶ 27 In the years since Victor, the Illinois Supreme Court has only rarely addressed the issue

of defining “reasonable doubt,” but the essential principles are unchanged. In People v. Keene, 169 Ill. 2d 1 (1995), a case involving prosecutorial comments about reasonable doubt, the supreme court reaffirmed that, although it is unwise, defining the term is not automatic error:

“This court has cautioned against attempts by counsel as well as trial judges to explain the reasonable doubt standard. [Citation.] The danger is that, no matter how well-intentioned, the attempt may distort the standard to the prejudice of the defendant. If sufficient prejudice results, reversal is warranted.” (Emphasis added.) Id. at 24-25.

In Keene, the court held that the prosecutor’s comments did not rise to the level of plain error.

More recently, the supreme court issued People v. Green, 225 Ill. 2d 612 (2007), in which it

considered whether the failure to formally instruct the jury that the State bore the burden of proof as to each and every element of the offense (as part of Illinois Pattern Jury Instructions, Criminal, No. 14.04 (4th ed. 2000)) rendered the trial fundamentally unfair. The supreme court held that the essential requirements for a fair trial had been met because IPI Criminal 4th No. 2.03 (Supp.

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2009) (which lays out the State’s general burden of proof and the presumption of the defendant’s innocence) had been given. Green, 225 Ill. 2d at 624 (“once IPI Criminal 4th No. 2.03 was

given, the constitutional threshold was met”). Although it does not directly bear on the issue of definining reasonable doubt, Green is illuminating because it reflects Victor’s emphasis on the constitutional requirement that jurors be told that they must apply the beyond a reasonable doubt standard, and Victor holds that it is unimportant whether “reasonable doubt” is defined so long as the proper standard is applied.

¶ 28 Thus, under Illinois Supreme Court precedent, it remains the law in Illinois that defining

“reasonable doubt” is discouraged but is not reversible error per se.

¶ 29 C. Turman and Franklin ¶ 30 In 2011, the First District Appellate Court issued Turman, 2011 IL App (1st) 091019, ¶ 19, in which it held that the trial court committed reversible error when it answered a jury’s request for a definition of “reasonable doubt” by saying that “ ‘reasonable doubt is not defined

under Illinois law. It is for the jury to collectively determine what reasonable doubt is.’ ” The parties had agreed to this response, and the defendant had not identified it as error in his posttrial motion, instead raising it for the first time on appeal. The appellate court stated that the issue was subject to plain error analysis, rejecting the State’s argument that the defendant had acquiesced in the error and could not raise it on appeal. Id. ¶ 27.

¶ 31 Analyzing the trial court’s response to the jury’s question, the Turman court held that, although the first part of the response (that the term was not defined under Illinois law) was correct, the second part was error:

“By instructing the jurors that they should collectively determine what reasonable doubt

was, the court allowed the jury to use a standard that in all likelihood was below the threshold of a reasonable doubt standard. *** The effort by the trial court in this case

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The Turman court went on to say that the trial court’s response was plain error under both prongs

of the analysis. The response was error under the first prong because the court viewed the evidence as close, and the response “did not clarify the meaning of reasonable doubt.” Id. ¶ 27.

It also held that, because the error allowed the jury to apply an incorrect standard of proof, it

affected the fairness and integrity of the trial and violated the defendant’s right to due process, thereby amounting to plain error under the second prong. Id.

¶ 32 The Turman court did not provide any detailed explanation as to what aspect of the trial court’s response created the probability that the jury applied a lesser standard of proof. Was it the use of the word “collectively,” which might have suggested that reasonable doubt meant

whatever a majority of the group thought, without regard for the beliefs of individual jurors? Or was it simply that the trial court gave some response, and the court read Illinois law as saying that any response (other than refusing to answer the question) was automatic error? The Turman decision left these questions unanswered.

¶ 33 One year later, the Third District Appellate Court issued Franklin, 2012 IL App (3d)

100618. In Franklin, the trial court had stated, during jury selection: “ ‘Beyond a reasonable doubt means beyond a reasonable doubt. It’s what each of you individually and collectively, as

12 of you, believe is beyond a reasonable doubt.’ ” Id. ¶ 4. During the State’s rebuttal closing, the prosecutor reminded the jurors that the trial judge had told them that “ ‘[r]easonable doubt is what you believe to be reasonable doubt. You decide what reasonable doubt is. Not [defense counsel], not the State, you decide.’ ” Id. ¶ 15. The defendant did not make any contemporaneous objections or raise the issue in his posttrial motion, but raised the issue on appeal.

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¶ 34 The majority in Franklin began by stating that “[t]he United States Constitution does not prohibit courts from defining reasonable doubt” (citing Victor), but “judges in Illinois courts are prohibited from doing so” (citing Failor and Speight). Id. ¶ 24. The Franklin majority went on to state that any attempt to define “reasonable doubt” was error per se: “A trial court’s attempt to explain reasonable doubt is improper because there is no better definition of reasonable doubt than the words themselves.” Id. ¶ 25; see also id. ¶ 27 (the instruction given was improper

“because it contravene[d] the Illinois Supreme Court’s mandate that trial courts not define

reasonable doubt for the jury”). The Franklin majority then followed Turman in holding that, “by telling jurors that it was for them to collectively determine what reasonable doubt meant,”

the trial court’s instruction created a reasonable likelihood that the jury had convicted the defendant based on a standard of proof less than beyond a reasonable doubt, a structural error requiring reversal. Id. ¶ 28.

¶ 35 Justice Carter dissented from this holding. He set out the constitutional requirements for instructing a jury in a criminal trial, including instructions on the presumption of innocence and the State’s burden to prove the commission of the offense beyond a reasonable doubt. In particular, he noted the United States Supreme Court’s statement that “ ‘the Constitution neither prohibits trial courts from defining reasonable doubt nor requires them to do so’ ” and “ ‘does not require that any particular form of words be used in advising the jury of the government’s

burden of proof.’ ” Id. ¶ 48 (Carter, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part) (quoting Victor, 511 U.S. at 6). Thus, contrary to the majority’s approach:

“[T]he United States Supreme Court’s ruling in Victor establishes that a jury instruction defining reasonable doubt is not automatically erroneous, *** and that such an instruction does not automatically violate a defendant’s right to a fair trial as guaranteed by the due process clause. See Victor, 511 U.S. at 5; Green, 225 Ill. 2d at 622 (adopting some of the - 13 -

2014 IL App (2d) 121203 language set forth in Victor but in a different context). Indeed, the Supreme Court noted in Victor that it had only found that a reasonable doubt instruction violated the due process clause one time in the past. See Victor, 511 U.S. at 5. According to the Supreme

Court, due process is violated only if under the totality of the circumstances, there is a

reasonable likelihood that the jury understood that the instructions allowed it to find the defendant guilty based upon a standard of proof that was less than beyond a reasonable doubt.” Id.

¶ 36 Justice Carter then reviewed all of the trial court’s extensive (and correct) comments to

the jury regarding the State’s burden of proof, the presumption of innocence, and the meaning of “reasonable doubt,” as well as all of the prosecutor’s comments (which included the statement that beyond a reasonable doubt was the highest standard of proof available under the law). He concluded that, considering all of the instructions received by the jury, there was not a

reasonable likelihood that the jurors believed the trial court’s response allowed them to find the defendant guilty under a lesser standard of proof. Id. ¶ 49.

¶ 37 D. Developments Since Turman and Franklin ¶ 38 Less than six months after it decided Franklin, the Third District issued another opinion addressing comments about the meaning of “reasonable doubt.” In People v. Max, 2012 IL App

(3d) 110385, the prosecutor had made two comments about reasonable doubt. During the initial closing argument, the prosecutor acknowledged that the State had the responsibility to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant engaged in theft and said he thought the jury would

find the State had met this standard. He then said, “ ‘[n]ow, beyond a reasonable doubt, there’s—there’s no dictionary definition of that. I would suggest to you that if you imagine a

balance—’ ” Id. ¶ 40. Defense counsel objected and the objection was sustained. In the defendant’s closing, her attorney argued that the State had failed to prove that she took any

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we have met our burden of proof of proving [the defendant] guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, and we don’t have to show where she spent the money.’ ” Id. ¶ 42.

¶ 39 Justice Carter wrote the opinion in Max, joined by two justices who were not on the panel in Franklin. The opinion reiterated much of Justice Carter’s dissent in Franklin and applied

Victor’s “totality of the circumstances” test rather than the per se approach of Turman and Franklin. The court then held that, considering all of the information received by the jury in the case, there was not a reasonable likelihood that the jurors understood the prosecutor’s comments to mean that they could find the defendant guilty under a lesser standard than proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Id. ¶ 56. 2

¶ 40 The First District also appears to have retreated from its position in Turman, to the extent that Turman held that telling jurors that they must define “reasonable doubt” for themselves