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PEOPLE v. GACY

No. 53212.

103 Ill.2d 1 (1984)

468 N.E.2d 1171

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. JOHN WAYNE GACY, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied September 28, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven Clark, Deputy Defender, and Michael J. Pelletier and Alan D. Goldberg, Assistant Appellate Defenders, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, of Chicago (Ralph Ruebner, of counsel), for appellant.

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Richard M. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago (William J. Kunkle, Jr., Chief Deputy State's Attorney, and Michael E. Shabat, Joan S. Cherry, James S. Veldman and Kevin Sweeney, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

David C. Sobelsohn and Linda E. Fisher, of Chicago, for amici curiae American Civil Liberties Union et al.

Judgment affirmed.

JUSTICE GOLDENHERSH delivered the opinion of the court:

In indictments returned in the circuit court of Cook County, defendant, John Wayne Gacy, was charged with 33 counts of murder, one count of deviate sexual assault, one count of indecent liberties with a child, and one count of aggravated kidnaping. The circuit court allowed defendant's motion that one trial be held on all pending indictments. Following a jury trial during which the...

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