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PEOPLE v. LEONARD

No. 53219.

83 Ill.2d 411 (1980)

415 N.E.2d 358

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

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied January 29, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tyrone C. Fahner and William J. Scott, Attorneys General, of Springfield, and Bernard Carey, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Donald B. Mackay and Melbourne A. Noel, Jr., Assistant Attorneys General, and Marcia B. Orr, Richard Burke, and William Gamboney, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Ralph Ruebner, Deputy Defender, and Patricia Unsinn, Assistant Appellate Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, of Chicago, for appellee.

Affirmed and remanded.

MR. JUSTICE KLUCZYNSKI delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, Richard Leonard, was convicted in a jury trial in the circuit court of Cook County of the offense of murder (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 38, par. 9-1) and sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 30 to 60 years. The appellate court reversed defendant's conviction and remanded the cause for a new trial (80 Ill.App.3d 741), holding...

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