PEOPLE v. DONALDSON

No. 54453.

91 Ill.2d 164 (1982)

435 N.E.2d 477

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. BYRON DONALDSON, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed April 16, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tyrone C. Fahner, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Richard M. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Melbourne A. Noel, Jr., and Mark L. Rotert, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, and Marcia B. Orr, Joel A. Stein, Warren A. Zimmerman, and Michael E. Shabat, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

James J. Doherty, Public Defender, and John E. Horn, Assistant Public Defender, of Chicago, for appellee.


Appellate court affirmed in part and reversed in part; circuit court affirmed in part and vacated in part.

JUSTICE WARD delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a jury trial in the circuit court of Cook County, Byron Donaldson was convicted of attempted murder, armed violence, and three charges of aggravated battery. He was sentenced to serve five concurrent nine-year terms. On appeal the appellate court, in a Rule 23 order, vacated the conviction and...

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