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PEOPLE v. SILVESTRI

No. 85-3250.

148 Ill. App.3d 980 (1986)

500 N.E.2d 456

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ILIO SILVESTRI, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District (3rd Division).

Opinion filed October 15, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick A. Tuite and Brent D. Stratton, both of Law Offices of Patrick A. Tuite, of Chicago, for appellant.

Richard M. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Thomas V. Gainer, Jr., Sharon L. Gaull, and Robert M. Podlasek, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Judgment affirmed.

JUSTICE McNAMARA delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a bench trial in July 1985, defendant Ilio Silvestri was convicted of the 1976 murder of his wife, Delores, after the court found defendant had hired another man, Michael Balls, to perform the killing. The trial court sentenced defendant to a term of 35 years. (Eight years earlier, Balls was found guilty of the murder and sentenced to 150 to 300 years. That conviction was affirmed...

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