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PEOPLE v. VELASCO

No. 1-86-0918.

184 Ill. App.3d 618 (1989)

540 N.E.2d 521

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. JESUS VELASCO, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District (4th Division).

Rehearing denied July 13, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul P. Biebel, Jr., Public Defender, of Chicago (James N. Perlman, Assistant Public Defender, of counsel), for appellant.

Cecil A. Partee, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Inge Fryklund, Lynda Peters, and Gail Feiger, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Affirmed in part, and reversed in part and remanded.

JUSTICE McMORROW delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a jury trial conducted in his absence, defendant was found not guilty of murder, but guilty of two counts of attempted murder. He was sentenced to concurrent terms of 30 years on the attempted murder convictions. On appeal, defendant contends that (1) he was improperly tried in absentia; (2) plain error occurred when the jury was incorrectly...

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