PEOPLE v. PENDLETON

No. 1-90-1606.

628 N.E.2d 505 (1993)

256 Ill. App.3d 983

195 Ill.Dec. 41

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Maurice PENDLETON, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Sixth Division.

November 29, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kathleen T. Zellner & Assoc., Naperville (Kathleen T. Zellner and Michael D. Hemstreet, of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

Jack O'Malley, State's Atty. of Cook County, Chicago (Renee Goldfarb, Eileen O'Neill and Michael B. McHale, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.


Justice EGAN delivered the opinion of the court:

This is the third appeal from a conviction for a murder committed on March 31, 1970. In August 1970, the defendant was indicted for the murder of Dewey Crockett and Debra Goodlow. A jury acquitted him of the murder of Crockett, and convicted him of the murder of Goodlow. He was sentenced to 100 to 199 years imprisonment. The appellate court reversed the conviction because of the State's repeated reference to Goodlow...

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