PEOPLE v. TRIPLETT

No. 60106.

108 Ill.2d 463 (1985)

485 N.E.2d 9

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. JESSIE TRIPLETT, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed October 18, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William D. Heinz and Cynthia G. Shoenberger Bowman, of Jenner & Block, of Chicago, 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 Joan S. Cherry and Donna B. Moore, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.


Reversed and remanded.

CHIEF JUSTICE CLARK delivered the opinion of the court:

On the morning of September 18, 1978, Alexander Nimoh, the manager of the Clark Oil Company service station located at 500 West Garfield Boulevard in Chicago (the service station), was robbed, shot three times in the head, and killed. The defendant, Jessie Triplett, was arrested in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on November 13, 1978, in connection with the murder and the armed robbery. Triplett...

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