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PEOPLE v. FALKNER

No. 84-246.

131 Ill. App.3d 706 (1985)

475 N.E.2d 964

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. EDDIE FALKNER, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Second District.

Rehearing denied April 8, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. Joseph Weller and Robert Hirschhorn, both of State Appellate Defender's Office, of Elgin, for appellant.

Robert Morrow, State's Attorney, of Geneva (Phyllis J. Perko and William F. Browers, both of State's Attorneys Appellate Service Commission, of counsel), for the People.

Reversed and remanded.

JUSTICE HOPF delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a jury trial in the circuit court of Kane County on three counts of murder, defendant was convicted of the lesser offense of voluntary manslaughter (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 38, par. 9-2) and was sentenced to a 10-year term of imprisonment in the Department of Corrections. On appeal, defendant claims that the trial court erred...

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