PEOPLE v. KIRKPATRICK

No. 14986.

70 Ill. App.3d 166 (1979)

387 N.E.2d 1284

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ROBERT EUGENE KIRKPATRICK (Impleaded), Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fourth District.

Opinion filed March 26, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patricia Crowley, of Champaign, for appellant.

Thomas J. Difanis, State's Attorney, of Urbana (John R. DeLaMar and James E. Souk, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.


Judgment affirmed.

Mr. JUSTICE GREEN delivered the opinion of the court:

After trial by jury in the circuit court of Champaign County, defendant Robert Kirkpatrick was convicted of the murders of Douglas Simmons and Mark Harris and sentenced to concurrent terms of imprisonment of 200 to 500 years for each.

On appeal defendant asserts that the trial court erred in (1) permitting trial by a jury selected in a manner making it conviction-prone, (2) permitting...

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