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PEOPLE v. WEIR

No. 61608.

111 Ill.2d 334 (1986)

490 N.E.2d 1

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. LEONARD WEIR, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed February 21, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Larry Vandersnick, State's Attorney, of Cambridge (Jill Wine-Banks and Roma J. Stewart, Solicitors General, and Mark L. Rotert and Scott Graham, Assistant Attorneys General, all of Chicago, and John X. Breslin and Rita Kennedy Mertel, of the State's Attorneys Appellate Service Commission, of Ottawa, of counsel), for the People.

Frederick F. Cohn, of Chicago, for appellee.

Appellate court reversed; circuit court affirmed.

JUSTICE MILLER delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a bench trial in the circuit court of Henry County, the defendant, Leonard Weir, was convicted of two counts each of unlawful use of weapons and aggravated assault, and he was sentenced to prison and fined. The appellate court reversed the convictions and remanded the cause for a new trial, concluding that counsel's failure to present a defense of...

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