PEOPLE v. WOODSON

No. 1-89-0754.

581 N.E.2d 320 (1991)

220 Ill. App.3d 865

163 Ill.Dec. 369

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Dwayne WOODSON, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fifth Division.

October 11, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. Joseph Weller, Deputy Defender and Paul J. Glaser, Asst. Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Elgin, for defendant-appellant.

Jack O'Malley, State's Atty. of Cook County, Chicago (Renee Goldfarb, William Pistorious, and John Wilk, Asst. State's Attys., of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.


Presiding Justice LORENZ delivered the opinion of the court:

After a jury trial, defendant was found guilty of two counts of first degree murder (Ill.Rev.Stat.1987, ch. 38, par. 9-1(a)) and was sentenced to natural life in prison. Defendant appealed. We consider: (1) whether, in light of Dunaway v. New York (1979), 442 U.S. 200, 99 S.Ct. 2248, 60 L.Ed.2d 824, the defendant was illegally detained at the police station the night...

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