PEOPLE v. SKIPPER

No. 86-0046.

177 Ill. App.3d 684 (1988)

533 N.E.2d 44

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. WILLIE SKIPPER, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District (3rd Division).

Supplemental opinion filed January 25, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel J. Stohr, of Chicago, for appellant.

Richard M. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Thomas V. Gainer, Jr., Bonnie Meyer Sloan, and Frank J. Savaiano, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.


Judgment affirmed.

JUSTICE RIZZI delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, Willie Skipper, was convicted of aggravated battery and sentenced to five years in the Illinois Department of Corrections. On appeal, defendant argues that his sixth and fourteenth amendment rights to an impartial jury were violated by the trial court's refusal to voir dire the prospective jurors as to any predisposition regarding a verdict of "not guilty by reason of self...

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