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PEOPLE v. SAWYER

No. 62975.

115 Ill.2d 184 (1986)

503 N.E.2d 331

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. TERRANCE SAWYER, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied January 30, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Agostinelli, Deputy Defender, and Gary R. Peterson, Assistant Defender, both of Ottawa, and Charles M. Schiedel, Deputy Defender, and Gary S. Rapaport, Assistant Defender, both of Springfield, for appellant.

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield (Roma J. Stewart, Solicitor General, and Mark L. Rotert and Joan G. Fickinger, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, of counsel), for the People.

Judgment affirmed.

JUSTICE MORAN delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant, Terrance Sawyer, was convicted by a McDonough County jury of voluntary manslaughter for the stabbing death of Garry Kennedy. The trial court, however, found that it had improperly refused to give the defendant's tendered instruction on the use of force in defense of a dwelling (Illinois Pattern Jury Instruction, Criminal, No. 24...

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