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PEOPLE v. HOLMES

No. 68448.

135 Ill.2d 198 (1990)

552 N.E.2d 763

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. LOUIS HOLMES, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Modified on denial of rehearing April 9, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Raymond Kimbell III, State's Attorney, of Galesburg (Robert J. Ruiz, Solicitor General, and Terence M. Madsen and Michael J. Singer, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, and Kenneth R. Boyle and John X. Breslin, of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, of Ottawa, of counsel), for the People.

Robert Agostinelli, Deputy Defender, and Joseph N. Ehmann, Assistant Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, of Ottawa, for appellee.

Appellate court affirmed in part and reversed in part; circuit court affirmed in part and reversed in part; cause remanded.

JUSTICE CLARK delivered the opinion of the court:

The central question raised by this appeal is whether the State should be required to produce a government informant for trial where that informant's testimony could undermine the State's case against the defendant.

On November 6, 1986, defendant, Louis Holmes, was indicted in...

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