PEOPLE v. FOSTER

No. 57811.

99 Ill.2d 48 (1983)

457 N.E.2d 405

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. JAMES W. FOSTER, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed December 1, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Ronald C. Dozier, State's Attorney, of Bloomington (Ellen Flaum and Kenneth A. Fedinets, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, and Robert J. Biderman and Garry W. Bryan, of the State's Attorneys Appellate Service Commission, of Springfield, of counsel), for the People.

Daniel D. Yuhas, Deputy Defender, and Gary R. Peterson, Assistant Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, of Springfield, for appellee.


Judgment affirmed.

JUSTICE UNDERWOOD delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a jury trial in the circuit court of McLean County the defendant, James Foster, was convicted of conspiracy to commit robbery, and sentenced to an extended term of six years' imprisonment. Based upon its interpretation of the Illinois conspiracy statute (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 38, par. 8-2) the appellate court reversed in a Rule...

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