PEOPLE v. JACKSON

No. 85-0421.

170 Ill. App.3d 77 (1987)

522 N.E.2d 577

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. HERSCHEL JACKSON, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District (2nd Division).

Rehearing denied December 10, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven Clark and Joan S. Colen, both of State Appellate Defender's Office, of Chicago, for appellant.

Richard M. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Thomas V. Gainer, Jr., Christopher J. Cummings, James E. Fitzgerald, and Robert M. Podlasek, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.


Affirmed in part and remanded in part.

PRESIDING JUSTICE SCARIANO delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant Herschel Jackson (Jackson) was indicted for murdering his mother, stepfather, and his six-year-old stepbrother. In December of 1982 he was found mentally unfit to stand trial, but on April 10, 1984, following a bench trial, Jackson was found guilty but mentally ill. Subsequently, he was found unfit...

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