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PEOPLE v. RUIZ

No. 64142.

132 Ill.2d 1 (1989)

547 N.E.2d 170

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. LUIS RUIZ, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied December 4, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles M. Schiedel, Deputy Defender, and Theodore A. Gottfried, State Appellate Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, of Springfield, for appellant.

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Richard M. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Terence M. Madsen, Assistant Attorney General, of Chicago, and Inge Fryklund and James S. Veldman, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Judgment affirmed in part and reversed in part; cause remanded.

JUSTICE MILLER delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant, Luis Ruiz, appeals from an order of the circuit court of Cook County dismissing, without an evidentiary hearing, his petitions for post-conviction relief. Because the defendant was sentenced to death for the underlying murder convictions, the present appeal lies directly to this court. 107 Ill.2d R. 651(a).

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