PEOPLE v. BRYANT

No. 55723.

94 Ill.2d 514 (1983)

447 N.E.2d 301

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. DENNIS BRYANT, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed January 24, 1983.


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., Assistant Attorney General, and Michael E. Shabat and Gregory J. Ellis, Assistant State's Attorneys, all of Chicago, of counsel), for the People.

Steven Clark, Deputy Defender, and Phillip J. Zisook, Assistant Appellate Defender, of the Office of State Appellate Defender, of Chicago, for appellee.


Appellate court reversed; circuit court affirmed.

JUSTICE UNDERWOOD delivered the opinion of the court:

A Cook County jury convicted defendant, Dennis Bryant, on two counts of armed robbery for the holdup of an Evanston 7-Eleven store. He was sentenced to two concurrent 12-year terms of imprisonment. In the appellate court, the State agreed that defendant should only have been charged with one count of armed robbery. After finding erroneous an in-court identification...

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