PEOPLE v. HOPE

No. 58037.

137 Ill.2d 430 (1990)

560 N.E.2d 849

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. EDGAR HOPE, JR., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied October 1, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles M. Schiedel, Deputy Defender, and Gary S. Rapaport, Assistant Defender, both of Springfield, and Steven Clark, Assistant Defender, of Chicago, all of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, for appellant.

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Richard M. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Mark L. Rotert and Terence M. Madsen, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, and Joan S. Cherry, Timothy J. Frenzer, Inge Fryklund and David A. Cuomo, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.


Convictions affirmed; sentence vacated; cause remanded.

JUSTICE STAMOS delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, Edgar Hope, Jr., was tried by a jury in the circuit court of Cook County and convicted of murder, attempted murder, and armed violence. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 38, pars. 8-4, 9-1(a)(1), 33A-2.) The jury had no black members; defendant is black; and the two victims of his most serious crimes were white, both of them police officers. After...

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