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PEOPLE v. FIELDS

Nos. 64276, 64277 cons.

135 Ill.2d 18 (1990)

552 N.E.2d 791

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. NATHSON FIELDS, Appellant. — THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. EARL HAWKINS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied April 9, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randolph N. Stone, Public Defender, of Chicago (James H. Reddy, Assistant Defender, of counsel), for appellant Nathson Fields.

Charles M. Schiedel, Deputy Defender, and James E. Chadd, Assistant Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, of Springfield, for appellant Earl Hawkins.

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Richard M. Daley and Cecil A. Partee, State's Attorneys, of Chicago (Terence M. Madsen, Assistant Attorney General, of Chicago, and Inge Fryklund, Kevin Sweeney and Sara Dillery Hynes, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Judgments affirmed.

JUSTICE WARD delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendants, Nathson Fields and Earl Hawkins, and a codefendant, George Carter, were charged by indictment with the murders of Talman Hickman and Jerome Smith. Carter's case was later severed and Fields and Hawkins were tried together. Following a bench trial in the circuit court of Cook County, both defendants were convicted of the murders....

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