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PEOPLE v. DENTON

No. 1-91-1611.

628 N.E.2d 900 (1993)

256 Ill. App.3d 403

195 Ill.Dec. 436

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Morris DENTON, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Second Division.

December 28, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago (Michael J. Pelletier and Nan Ellen Foley, of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

State's Attorney of Cook County, Chicago (Jack O'Malley, Renee Goldfarb, Susan Schierl and Catherine A. Hufford, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.

Presiding Justice McCORMICK delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a bench trial, the trial court found defendant, Morris Denton, guilty of two counts of first degree murder, and it sentenced him to 40 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections. Defendant appeals from the conviction and sentence.

I.

Police picked up defendant, then 14 years old, around noon on November 11, 1989, a short distance from his home, while defendant was with...

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