PEOPLE v. ZAYAS

No. 65701.

131 Ill.2d 284 (1989)

546 N.E.2d 513

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. FERNANDO ZAYAS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed October 25, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sam Adam, John R. DeLeon and Marc Martin, all of Chicago, 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 Kenneth T. McCurry, Assistant State's Attorney, of counsel), for the People.


Appellate court reversed; circuit court reversed; cause remanded.

JUSTICE RYAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, Fernando Zayas, was convicted in the circuit court of Cook County on three counts of murder. The court sentenced him to three concurrent terms of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. The appellate court affirmed the convictions. (159 Ill.App.3d 554

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