Appellate Court of Illinois November 18, 2002, 1-00-0273 Rel (People v. Ehlert)

JUSTICE McNULTY

delivered the opinion of the court:

This case comes before us for a second time. In the first trial a jury found defendant, Elizabeth Ehlert, guilty of murdering her newborn child. We reversed the conviction because the prosecution presented irrelevant and highly prejudicial evidence that defendant had two abortions. People v. Ehlert, 274 Ill. App. 3d 1026 (1995).