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PEOPLE v. CLARK

No. 61732.

114 Ill.2d 450 (1986)

501 N.E.2d 123

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. DEXTER CLARK, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed November 20, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Doherty, Public Defender, of Chicago (Judith A. Stewart, Assistant Public Defender, and John Thomas Moran, of counsel), for appellant.

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Richard M. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Mark L. Rotert, Assistant Attorney General, of Chicago, and Joan S. Cherry and Timothy W. Heath, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Theodore Gottfried, of Springfield, and G. Joseph Weller and Kathleen J. Hamill, of Elgin, for amicus curiae Office of the State Appellate Defender.

Appellate court affirmed in part and reversed in part; circuit court affirmed in part and reversed in part; cause remanded.

JUSTICE MILLER delivered the opinion of the court:

After the circuit court of Cook County denied his motion to suppress his confession as involuntary, the defendant, Dexter Clark, waived his right to trial by jury. At the conclusion of the subsequent bench trial, the judge found the defendant guilty of aggravated arson (Ill. Rev. Stat...

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