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PEOPLE v. LEWIS

No. 54366.

88 Ill.2d 429 (1981)

430 N.E.2d 994

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. BERNICE LEWIS, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied January 29, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tyrone C. Fahner, Attorney General, of Springfield (Melbourne A. Noel, Jr., Michael B. Weinstein, Susan M. Sherwin, and Neal B. Goodfriend, Assistant Attorneys General, and Jay Stein, law student, of Chicago, of counsel), for the People.

Dobrovolny & Souk, of Urbana (James E. Souk, of counsel), for appellee.

Reversed and remanded.

JUSTICE UNDERWOOD delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, Bernice Lewis, was convicted in a jury trial in the Champaign County circuit court of murder, armed robbery and aggravated kidnaping in connection with the December 14, 1978, robbery of the Citizens National Bank in Decatur and the death of Donald Bivens, Sr., a bank security guard. The appellate court (90 Ill.App.3d 220) reversed...

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