PEOPLE v. RAMIREZ

No. 52354.

98 Ill.2d 439 (1983)

457 N.E.2d 31

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. ROBERTO E. RAMIREZ, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed November 10, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Doherty, Public Defender, of Chicago (Robert P. Isaacson, Ira Churgin, and Aaron L. Meyers, Assistant Public Defenders, of counsel, and John J. Walsh, law student), for appellant.

Tyrone C. Fahner, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Richard M. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Michael B. Weinstein, Assistant Attorney General, of Chicago, and Michael E. Shabat and J. Marck Lubanich, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.


Affirmed in part and vacated in part; cause remanded.

JUSTICE CLARK delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant, Roberto E. Ramirez, 51 years of age, was found guilty of murder and attempted armed robbery following a bench trial in the circuit court of Cook County. The defendant was not sentenced on the attempted-armed-robbery conviction but, pursuant to the discretion granted it by the Illinois death penalty statute, the prosecution requested a death...

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