PEOPLE v. NEVITT

No. 67756.

135 Ill.2d 423 (1990)

553 N.E.2d 368

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. TOMMY NEVITT, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed March 29, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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 and Kent Sinson, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Michael J. Pelletier, Deputy Defender, and Gordon H. Berry, Assistant Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, of Chicago, for appellee.


Appellate court reversed; circuit court affirmed; cause remanded.

JUSTICE MILLER delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, Tommy Nevitt, was convicted in the circuit court of Cook County for the aggravated criminal sexual assault (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 38, par. 12-14(b)(1)) of three-year-old J.B. and sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment. On appeal, the appellate court reversed defendant's conviction and...

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