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PEOPLE v. WEST

No. 65382.

137 Ill.2d 558 (1990)

560 N.E.2d 594

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. PAUL WEST, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied October 1, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vincent Wagner, of Chicago, and Charles M. Schiedel, Deputy Defender, and Peter L. Rotskoff, Assistant Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, of Springfield, 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 James E. Fitzgerald, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Judgment affirmed.

JUSTICE CALVO delivered the opinion of the court:

On February 27, 1986, an indictment was filed in the circuit court of Cook County charging defendant, Paul West, with the murder of three-month-old Shardae Harris under sections 9-1(a)(1) and (a)(2) of the Criminal Code of 1961 (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 38, pars. 9-1(a)(1), (a)(2)). A jury found defendant guilty of murder on December 3, 1986, at the close of a three-day trial. The circuit...

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