PEOPLE v. ALLEN

No. 53173.

101 Ill.2d 24 (1984)

461 N.E.2d 337

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. KENNETH ALLEN, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied March 30, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Richard M. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Mark Rotert, Assistant Attorney General, of Chicago, and Michael E. Shabat and Richard B. Levy, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.


Reversed and remanded.

JUSTICE MORAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, Kenneth Allen, was charged by information in the circuit court of Cook County with the murder of two Chicago police officers. Following a fitness hearing, at which a jury found him competent to stand trial, defendant, pro se, pleaded guilty. Pursuant to section 9-1(d) of the Criminal Code of 1961, the State requested a sentencing hearing to consider whether the death...

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