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Court opinion
1986-08-27
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People v. Neumann, 148 Ill. App. 3d 362 (1986)
The Illinois Appellate Court affirmed a murder conviction for a 1979 Chicago robbery-killing. It records that Frank Cullotta, imprisoned in Nevada, made an agreement with the FBI in April 1982 for witness protection and limits on his sentences, and later testified for the State under a grant of immunity.
- Date
- 1986-08-27
- Kind
- court-opinion
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- Docket
- No. 83-2422; 148 Ill. App. 3d 362, 499 N.E.2d 487
- Rights
- Opinion of a state court. Judicial opinions are not subject to copyright under the government edicts doctrine (Banks v. Manchester, 128 U.S. 244 (1888); Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 590 U.S. 255 (2020)). This page uses the opinion text only, not any publisher headnote. The text was read on CourtListener.
Appellate Court of Illinois, decided August 27, 1986, on appeal from a murder conviction in the Circuit Court of Cook County.
The opinion states: “In April 1982, while imprisoned in Nevada, Frank Cullotta entered into an agreement with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) whereby in return for information about various crimes in which he was involved, he would become part of the Federal witness protection program, receive a maximum sentence of 10 years’ imprisonment for cases pending against him at that time, and receive immunity from prosecution in Nevada and in Federal court regarding the matters he discussed.” It continues: “Pursuant to this agreement, Cullotta related his involvement in the 1979 murder” of a Chicago jeweler. He was later given immunity in Illinois and testified for the State. “Cullotta testified that he had lived in Chicago until 1978 when he moved to Las Vegas, Nevada.”
He testified to planning the robbery and to the sale of the jewelry in Las Vegas. The court held that his criminal record and status as an accomplice went to his credibility, not his competence as a witness, and the judgment was “Affirmed.” A co-defendant acquitted at a separate bench trial, the victim, and other private persons named in the opinion are not named here. The opinion does not give the trial date.
