PEOPLE v. JOHNSON

No. 85-0949.

162 Ill. App.3d 12 (1987)

515 N.E.2d 825

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. WILLIAM JOHNSON, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District (5th Division).

Opinion filed September 30, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul P. Biebel, Public Defender, of Chicago (Mark Stein, Assistant Public Defender, of counsel), for appellant.

Richard M. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Joan S. Cherry and Rimas F. Cernius, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.


Judgments affirmed and cause remanded.

JUSTICE LORENZ delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a jury trial defendant William Johnson was convicted of three counts of delivery of a controlled substance and was sentenced to a 30-month period of probation. On appeal defendant contends: (1) the prosecution improperly used its peremptory challenges to exclude all blacks from the jury; and (2) the trial court erred when it failed to require the United States...

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