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PEOPLE v. FRANKLIN

No. 64838.

135 Ill.2d 78 (1990)

552 N.E.2d 743

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. WILLIAM FRANKLIN, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied April 9, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel M. Kirwan, Deputy Defender, and Michelle A. Zalisko, Assistant Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, of Mount Vernon, for appellant.

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Cecil A. Partee, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Terence M. Madsen, Assistant Attorney General, of Chicago, and Inge Fryklund and Maureen A. Harton, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Affirmed.

CHIEF JUSTICE MORAN delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant, William Franklin, was charged by information in Cook County for the murder (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 38, pars. 9-1(a)(1), (a)(2)) of Elgin Evans, Jr. A jury found the defendant guilty of murder. The State requested a hearing to determine whether the death penalty should be imposed. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 38, par. 9-1(d).) The same...

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