PEOPLE v. FREE

No. 60911.

112 Ill.2d 154 (1986)

492 N.E.2d 1267

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. JAMES FREE, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied June 2, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles M. Schiedel, Deputy Defender, and Lawrence J. Essig, Assistant Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, of Springfield, for appellant.

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield (Jill Wine-Banks, Solicitor General, and Mark L. Rotert and Kenneth A. Fedinets, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, of counsel), for the People.


Judgment affirmed.

JUSTICE WARD delivered the opinion of the court:

This appeal was taken from the order of the circuit court of Du Page County dismissing the defendant's petition under the Post-Conviction Hearing Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 38, par. 122-1 et seq.). The defendant, James Free, was found guilty by a jury of one count of murder, one count of attempted murder, and two counts of attempted rape...

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