PEOPLE v. CLARK

No. 5-87-0453.

188 Ill. App.3d 130 (1989)

544 N.E.2d 32

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. RAPHAEL CLARK, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fifth District.

Opinion filed August 24, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel M. Kirwan and E. Joyce Randolph, both of State Appellate Defender's Office, of Mt. Vernon, for appellant.

John Baricevic, State's Attorney, of Belleville (Kenneth R. Boyle, Stephen E. Norris, and Debra A. Buchman, all of State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor's Office, of counsel), for the People.


Affirmed as modified and remanded.

JUSTICE HOWERTON delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant kidnapped Gary Decker and his wife, Donna, on a St. Louis parking lot, robbed and murdered Gary Decker in Missouri, and raped and murdered Donna Decker in St. Clair County, Illinois.

Defendant was arrested on March 2, 1983, by United States Marshalls who jailed him in the St. Clair County jail, a federally...

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