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PEOPLE v. HOPE

No. 58037.

560 N.E.2d 849 (1990)

137 Ill.2d 430

148 Ill.Dec. 252

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Edgar HOPE, Jr., Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing Denied October 1, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles M. Schiedel, Deputy Defender, and Gary S. Rapaport, Asst. Defender, Springfield, and Steven Clark, Asst. Defender, Chicago, Office of the State Appellate Defender, for appellant.

Neil F. Hartigan, Atty. Gen., Springfield, and Richard M. Daley, State's Atty., Chicago (Mark L. Rotert and Terence M. Madsen, Asst. Attys. Gen., Chicago, and Joan S. Cherry, Timothy J. Frenzer, Inge Fryklund and David A. Cuomo, Asst. State's Attys., of counsel), for the People.

Justice STAMOS delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, Edgar Hope, Jr., was tried by a jury in the circuit court of Cook County and convicted of murder, attempted murder, and armed violence. (Ill.Rev.Stat. 1981, ch. 38, pars. 8-4, 9-1(a)(1), 33A-2.) The jury had no black members; defendant is black; and the two victims of his most serious crimes were white, both of them police officers. After a sentencing proceeding before the same jury, which determined that...

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