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PEOPLE v. GREER

No. 51214.

79 Ill.2d 103 (1980)

402 N.E.2d 203

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. ALAN GREER, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied March 28, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Reid, Deputy Defender, and Robert E. Davison, First Assistant Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, of Mount Vernon, for appellant.

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Donald Lowery, State's Attorney, of Metropolis (Donald B. Mackay, Melbourne A. Noel, Jr., Sandra L. Devine, Carolyn B. Notkoff, Mark L. Rotert, and Casimir J. Bartnik, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, of counsel), for the People.

James J. Doherty, Public Defender, of Chicago (Robert P. Isaacson, Aaron L. Meyers and John Thomas Moran, Assistant Public Defenders, of counsel), amicus curiae.

Affirmed in part and reversed in part; sentence vacated; cause remanded.

MR. JUSTICE UNDERWOOD delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant, Alan Greer, was charged in separate informations with the murders of Sharon Moss and her 8 1/2-month-old fetus. He was found guilty of both murders by a jury in the circuit court of Massac County and was sentenced to death. The case is before us on direct appeal. Ill. Const. 1970, art. VI, sec. 4(b).

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