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PEOPLE v. WOODS

No. 52923.

81 Ill.2d 537 (1980)

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. STERLYN W. WOODS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed September 15, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Doherty, Public Defender, and James H. Reddy, Assistant Public Defender, 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, Jr., Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, and Marcia B. Orr, Iris E. Sholder and Armand L. Andry, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Judgment affirmed.

MR. JUSTICE RYAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Sterlyn Woods, defendant, was charged with the murder of Tarran Jones in the circuit court of Cook County. After a bench trial, he was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 38, par. 9-3.) He was sentenced to four years in the penitentiary with an additional one-year term of mandatory supervised release. The appellate court affirmed the decision of the circuit...

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