Justice McMORROW delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion:
The defendant, Richard Morris, was convicted of first degree murder and other offenses and sentenced to death. While his case was pending before this court on direct appeal, then-Governor George H. Ryan issued a clemency order which stated that defendant's death sentence was commuted to natural life imprisonment without the possibility of parole or mandatory supervised release. Thereafter, this court...
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