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PEOPLE v. THORNTON

No. 1-91-3608.

628 N.E.2d 1063 (1993)

256 Ill. App.3d 708

195 Ill.Dec. 599

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Victor THORNTON, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Third Division.

December 29, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack O'Malley, State's Atty., Chicago (Renee Goldfarb, Linda Woloshin, of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

Rita A. Fry, Public Defender, Chicago (Greg Koster, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.

Justice RIZZI delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, Victor Thornton, was found guilty of robbery (Ill.Rev.Stat.1989, ch. 38, par. 18-1), in a jury trial and sentenced to six years imprisonment.

The sole issue for review on appeal is whether the trial court erred in finding that the State's explanations for its use of peremptory challenges to strike three African-Americans from the venire were race-neutral. Batson v. Kentucky (1984),

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