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PEOPLE v. BUTLER

No. 47933.

64 Ill.2d 485 (1976)

356 N.E.2d 330

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. RICHARD BUTLER, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied November 12, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Robert H. Rice, State's Attorney, of Belleville (James B. Zagel, Jayne A. Carr, and Anne Taylor, Assistant Attorneys General, and Robert L. Craig, Assistant State's Attorney, of counsel), for the People.

Richard J. Wilson, Deputy Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, of Springfield, and Richard E. Cunningham, Assistant Defender, for appellee.

Appellate court reversed; circuit court affirmed.

MR. JUSTICE SCHAEFER delivered the opinion of the court:

A jury in the circuit court of St. Clair County found the defendant, Richard Butler, guilty of the armed robberies of Max Wilson and Lloyd Hall, and he received concurrent sentences of 8 to 15 years on each conviction. The Appellate Court, Fifth District, with one justice dissenting, reversed the conviction and sentence for the armed robbery of Hall....

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