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PEOPLE v. PEOPLES

No. 1-90-0221.

579 N.E.2d 1001 (1991)

219 Ill. App.3d 703

162 Ill.Dec. 187

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. James PEOPLES, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Second Division.

September 10, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randolph N. Stone, Public Defender of Cook County, Chicago (Kim L. Sorrells, James H. Reddy, Asst. Public Defenders, of counsel) for defendant-appellant.

Jack O'Malley, State's Atty., Chicago (Renee Goldfarb, Michael Latz, Loren A. Seidner, Asst. State's Attys., of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.

Presiding Justice SCARIANO delivered the opinion of the court:

James Peoples appeals from his judgment of conviction for the second degree murder (unreasonable belief that killing was justified) of Robert Wilkins, claiming: (1) that the State failed to afford him due process of law by requiring him at trial to prove, in order to escape a first degree murder conviction, that he believed that the killing was justified; (2) that this requirement denied him the equal...

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