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PEOPLE v. CARLSON

No. 50890.

79 Ill.2d 564 (1980)

404 N.E.2d 233

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. ROBERT K. CARLSON, SR., Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied May 29, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary Robinson, Deputy Defender, and Mark Schuster, Richard E. Cunningham and Martin Carlson, Assistant Defenders, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, of Elgin (Robert Davison, Verlin Meinz, John Reid and Charles Scheidel, of counsel), for appellant.

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Dennis P. Ryan, State's Attorney, of Waukegan (Donald B. Mackay, Melbourne A. Noel, Jr., Thomas E. Holum, Carolyn B. Notkoff and Mark L. Rotert, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, and Ann W. Regan, Assistant State's Attorney, 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.

Judgments affirmed; death sentence vacated; cause remanded.

MR. JUSTICE RYAN delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant, Robert K. Carlson, Sr., was sentenced to death in the circuit court of Lake County. The appeal has come directly to this court. (Ill. Const. 1970, art. VI, sec. 4(b); 73 Ill.2d R. 603.) The defendant argues that numerous errors were committed in his convictions on two murder charges and an arson charge. He also challenges

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