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PEOPLE v. PEARSON

No. 54140.

88 Ill.2d 210 (1981)

430 N.E.2d 990

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. WAYNE PEARSON et al. (Stephan Williams, Appellee).

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied January 29, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tyrone C. Fahner, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Bernard Carey and Richard M. Daley, State's Attorneys, of Chicago (Melbourne A. Noel, Jr., and Mark L. Rotert, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, and Marcia B. Orr, Iris E. Sholder, Christine A. Campbell, and Adrienne Noble Nacev, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Sam Adam, of Chicago, for appellee.

Appellate court reversed; circuit court affirmed.

JUSTICE RYAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Stephan Williams and Wayne Pearson were each charged in the circuit court of Cook County with three counts of armed robbery (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 38, par. 18-2). Both defendants were convicted on all three counts following a bench trial where they acted as counsel for themselves. Pearson was sentenced to a term of not less than 10 years but not more than...

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