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PEOPLE v. OAKS

No. 75541.

662 N.E.2d 1328 (1996)

169 Ill.2d 409

215 Ill.Dec. 188

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Douglas E. OAKS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing Denied April 1, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles M. Schiedel, Deputy Defender, Allen H. Andrews, Asst. Deputy Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, Springfield, for Douglas E. Oaks.

Roland W. Burris, Attorney General, Springfield, and Larry S. Vandersnick, State's Attorney, Cambridge (Rosalyn Kaplan, Solicitor General, and Arleen C. Anderson and Kathy Shepard, Assistant Attorneys General, of counsel), for the People.

Justice HARRISON delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a jury trial in the circuit court of Henry County, Douglas E. Oaks was convicted of two counts of first degree murder (Ill.Rev.Stat.1991, ch. 38, pars. 9-1(a)(2), (a)(3)) and one count of aggravated battery of a child (Ill.Rev.Stat.1991, ch. 38, par. 12-4.3(a)) for the death of his girlfriend's three-year-old son. Defendant waived his right to a jury at the death penalty hearing. The trial court found...

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