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PEOPLE v. MOSTAFA

No. 55463.

5 Ill. App.3d 158 (1971)

274 N.E.2d 846

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. MOHAMMED SKIKADA MOSTAFA, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District.

Rehearing denied September 30, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bellows, Bellows & Magidson, of Chicago, for appellant.

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Edward V. Hanrahan, State's Attorney, of Chicago, (James B. Zagel, Assistant Attorney General, and Robert A. Novelle, Anthony Montemurro, and Terry Gordon, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel,) for the People.

Judgment reversed.

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE LEIGHTON delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, Mohammed Skikada Mostafa and three other men not involved in this appeal, were jointly charged with murder. For reasons which will appear, defendant alone went to trial before a jury and was found guilty. The court sentenced him to serve twenty-five to thirty-five years.

Four points argued by the defendant require consideration. (1) The trial judge committed...

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