PEOPLE v. SANDERS

No. 1-87-3178.

568 N.E.2d 200 (1991)

209 Ill. App.3d 366

154 Ill.Dec. 200

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Respondent-Appellant, v. James SANDERS, Petitioner-Appellee.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fourth Division.

January 24, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cecil A. Partee, State's Atty., Chicago (Renee Goldfarb, William D. Carroll, Walter P. Hehner, Asst. State's Attys., of counsel), for respondent-appellant.

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


Justice LINN delivered the opinion of the court:

Petitioner, James Sanders, and his codefendants, Clarence Underwood and James Talbert, were convicted of murder (Ill.Rev. Stat.1981, ch. 38, par. 9-1(a)(1), (a)(2)) following a jury trial in the circuit court of Cook County. The trial judge sentenced Sanders to the penitentiary for a term of 20 years. On direct appeal, this court affirmed the conviction and sentence in a Rule 23 Order (107 Ill.2d R. 23). People v...

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