By DuPage Policy Journal |
Aug 16, 2024
DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin announced today that the Third District Appellate Court of Illinois has affirmed the first-degree murder conviction of sixty-five-year-old Donald Pelka in the 2018 shooting death of twenty-nine-year-old Kyle Gojdas of Glendale Heights. In his appeal seeking a new trial, Pelka claimed that the cumulative effect of three errors committed by the Trial Court deprived him of his right to a fair trial. The three alleged errors presented by Pelka address the admissibility of security video footage, the preclusion of specific evidence, and...