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PEOPLE v. JACKSON

No. 63960.

118 Ill.2d 179 (1987)

514 N.E.2d 983

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. ALBERT L. JACKSON, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed October 5, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield, and William Herzog, State's Attorney, of Kankakee (Roma J. Stewart, Solicitor General, and Mark L. Rotert and Marcia L. Friedl, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, and John X. Breslin, Howard R. Wertz and Kenneth R. Boyle, of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, of Ottawa, of counsel), for the People.

Robert Agostinelli, Deputy Defender, and Kenneth D. Brown, Assistant Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, of Ottawa, for appellee.

Judgments reversed; cause remanded.

JUSTICE RYAN delivered the opinion of the court:

We granted the State leave to appeal from a decision of the appellate court (144 Ill.App.3d 131), which affirmed a ruling by the circuit court of Kankakee County granting defendant Albert Jackson's motion to dismiss one of two reckless homicide counts on grounds of double jeopardy.

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