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PEOPLE v. SLOAN

No. 61438.

111 Ill.2d 517 (1986)

490 N.E.2d 1260

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. MARK A. SLOAN, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed March 19, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, and J. William Roberts, State's Attorney, both of Springfield (Jill Wine-Banks and Roma J. Stewart, Solicitors General, and Mark L. Rotert and Marcia L. Friedl, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, and Robert J. Biderman and David E. Mannchen, of the State's Attorneys Appellate Service Commission, of counsel), for the People.

Daniel D. Yuhas and Jeffrey D. Foust, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, of Springfield, for appellee.

Reversed and remanded.

JUSTICE MILLER delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a jury trial in the circuit court of Sangamon County, the defendant, Mark A. Sloan, was convicted of murder and home invasion and sentenced to 40 years' imprisonment. The appellate court, with one justice dissenting, reversed the conviction and remanded the cause for a new trial, concluding that the trial judge had erred in refusing the defendant's instructions on self-defense...

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