PEOPLE v. MARBLE

Nos. 53584, 53686.

91 Ill.2d 242 (1982)

437 N.E.2d 641

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. FREDERICK MARBLE, Appellee. — THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. WILLIE R. COLE, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed June 1, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tyrone C. Fahner and William J. Scott, Attorneys General, of Springfield, and Richard M. Daley and Bernard Carey, State's Attorneys, of Chicago (Melbourne A. Noel, Jr., Thomas E. Holum, and Mark L. Rotert, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, and Marcia B. Orr and Thomas J. Leanse, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

James J. Doherty, Public Defender, of Chicago (Robert P. Isaacson, Assistant Public Defender, and John J. Walsh, law student, of counsel), for appellee.

John X. Breslin, Deputy Director of the State's Attorneys Appellate Service Commission, of Ottawa, for amicus curiae State's Attorneys Appellate Service Commission.

Robert Agostinelli, Deputy Defender, and Verlin R.F. Meinz, Assistant Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, of Ottawa, for appellant.

No appearance for appellee.


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

JUSTICE WARD delivered the opinion of the court:

These consolidated appeals involve an examination of provisions of our statutes relating to escapes — section 31-6 of the Criminal Code of 1961 and section 3-6-4 of the Unified Code of Corrections.

In cause No. 53584 we will set out only those facts necessary

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