PEOPLE v. REDD

No. 62053.

135 Ill.2d 252 (1990)

553 N.E.2d 316

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. FRANK REDD, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed March 22, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David F. Graham, David B. Johnson, Kathleen L. Roach and Shari S. Diamond, of Chicago (Sidley & Austin, of counsel), for appellant, and Frank Redd, of Menard, appellant pro se.

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Richard M. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Terence M. Madsen, Assistant State's Attorney, of Chicago, and Thomas V. Gainer, Jr., Kenneth T. McCurry, Bonnie Meyer Sloan, Inge Fryklund and Renee G. Goldfarb, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.


Convictions reversed; sentences vacated; cause remanded.

JUSTICE CALVO delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a jury trial in the circuit court of Cook County, defendant, Frank Redd, was convicted of the rapes and murders of Aretha and Leola Bea. The same jury which convicted defendant determined defendant was eligible for the death penalty. The jury found no mitigating circumstances sufficient to preclude imposition of the death

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