PEOPLE v. GACY

No. 64382.

125 Ill.2d 117 (1988)

530 N.E.2d 1340

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. JOHN WAYNE GACY, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied December 5, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard S. Kling, of Chicago, and Thomas Ost, Laura Monahan and Jomarie Fredericks, law students, for appellant.

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Richard M. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago (James S. Veldman and Kevin Sweeney, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.


Affirmed.

JUSTICE CLARK delivered the opinion of the court:

This case involves the petition of the defendant, John Wayne Gacy, under the Post-Conviction Hearing Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 38, par. 122-1 et seq.), challenging his convictions and sentences. In the circuit court of Cook County, after a trial by jury, the defendant was tried and convicted of murdering 33 boys and young men. He was also found guilty of one count of deviate sexual assault...

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