PEOPLE v. TURNER

No. 63937.

128 Ill.2d 540 (1989)

539 N.E.2d 1196

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. ROBERT GENE TURNER, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied June 28, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles M. Schiedel, Deputy Defender, and Gary S. Rapaport, Assistant Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, of Springfield, and Elizabeth D. Caddick, law student, for appellant, and Robert G. Turner, of Menard, appellant pro se.

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield (Robert Ruiz, Solicitor General, and Terence M. Madsen and Joan G. Fickinger, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, of counsel), for the People.


Affirmed in part; vacated in part; death sentence vacated; cause remanded.

JUSTICE RYAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, Robert Turner, and two other men were charged in an information in the circuit court of Macoupin County with one count each of murder, aggravated criminal sexual assault, criminal sexual assault, aggravated kidnapping, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, and robbery. The trial court granted a motion to sever the three defendants...

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