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PEOPLE v. HILL

No. 50635.

78 Ill.2d 465 (1980)

401 N.E.2d 517

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. WILLIAM RODERICK HILL, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed February 22, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William P. O'Malley, of O'Malley, Royce & Hopkins, Ltd., of Chicago, and Elmer Gertz, of Chicago for appellant.

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Bernard Carey, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Donald B. Mackay and Melbourne A. Noel, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, and Marcia B. Orr, Iris E. Sholder, Joan S. Cherry, Assistant State's Attorneys, 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.

Theodore A. Gottfried, State Appellate Defender, of Springfield (Robert E. Davison, Legal Director, and Martin Carlson, Richard E. Cunningham, Verlin Meinz, John H. Reid, Charles M. Schiedel, and Mark Schuster, Assistant Appellate Defenders, of counsel), amicus curiae.

Reversed and remanded.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE GOLDENHERSH delivered the opinion of the court:

In a jury trial in the circuit court of Cook County, defendant, William Roderick Hill, was found guilty of two counts of murder and one count of conspiracy to commit murder. At the request of the People, pursuant to section 9-1(d) of the Criminal Code of 1961 (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 38, par. 9-1(d)), a separate sentencing proceeding was conducted before the jury which...

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