PEOPLE v. PECOR

No. 1-88-1235.

572 N.E.2d 1064 (1991)

213 Ill. App.3d 472

157 Ill.Dec. 600

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Gregory C. PECOR, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fifth Division.

May 3, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randolph N. Stone, Public Defender of Cook County, Chicago (Stephen L. Richards, Asst. Public Defender, of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

Jack O'Malley, State's Atty. of Cook County, Chicago (Renee G. Goldfarb, Guy L. Miller IV, and Michele I. Lavin, Asst. State's Attys., of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.


Presiding Justice LORENZ delivered the opinion of the court:

After a jury trial, the defendant, Gregory Pecor, was convicted of murder and sentenced to a term of life in prison without parole. On appeal, the defendant has raised numerous issues. In this opinion we limit our consideration to whether the trial judge erred in ruling that the defendant, a white male, did not have standing to object to the prosecution's use of peremptory challenges excluding black venirepersons...

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