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PEOPLE v. RUIZ

No. 60303.

107 Ill.2d 19 (1985)

479 N.E.2d 922

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. LUIS RUIZ, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed June 5, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles M. Schiedel, Deputy Defender, and Theodore A. Gottfried, State Appellate Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, of Springfield, of counsel, for appellant.

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Richard M. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Mark L. Rotert, Assistant Attorney General, of Chicago, and Michael E. Shabat and James S. Veldman, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for appellee.

Reversed and remanded.

CHIEF JUSTICE CLARK delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant, Luis Ruiz, has taken this appeal from an order of the circuit court of Cook County dismissing his petition for post-conviction relief. Because of the limited scope of our opinion, we need only set forth a few essential facts.

Ruiz and his codefendant, Juan Caballero, were convicted by separate juries in the circuit court of Cook County for the murders of Michael...

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