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PEOPLE v. COLES

No. 50446.

74 Ill.2d 393 (1979)

385 N.E.2d 694

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. GEORGE COLES et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed January 26, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Bernard Carey, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Donald B. Mackay and Melbourne A. Noel, Jr., Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, and Lee T. Hettinger, Joan S. Cherry, and Pamela L. Gray, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

James J. Doherty, Public Defender, and Robert P. Isaacson, Assistant Public Defender, of Chicago, for appellees.

Affirmed in part and vacated in part and remanded.

MR. JUSTICE CLARK delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendants, George Coles and Kevin Johnson, were convicted of armed robbery after a joint trial in the circuit court of Cook County. The Appellate Court, First District, reversed both convictions on the grounds that the trial court's restriction of inquiry into the alleged bias of the chief prosecution witness...

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