PEOPLE v. CAFFEY

No. 86975.

792 N.E.2d 1163 (2001)

205 Ill.2d 52

275 Ill.Dec. 390

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Fedell CAFFEY, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing Denied February 4, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Pelletier, Deputy Defender, and Patricia Mysza, Assistant Appellate Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago, for appellant.

James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield (Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General, and William L. Browers and Jay Paul Hoffmann, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for the People.


Justice FREEMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

On November 16, 1995, Debra Evans was fatally shot and stabbed in the Addison apartment where she lived with James Edwards and her children, Samantha, Joshua, and Jordan. Debra was nine months pregnant. The baby she was carrying, Elijah, was cut from her womb. Samantha was killed in the apartment with her mother. Joshua and Elijah were taken from the apartment. Jordan was left alone in the apartment with his dead...

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