PEOPLE v. JORDAN

No. 1-91-1117.

616 N.E.2d 1265 (1993)

247 Ill. App.3d 75

186 Ill.Dec. 633

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Benny JORDAN, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Second Division.

Rehearing Denied June 24, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Pelletier, Deputy Defender, Chicago (Patricia Unsinn, Asst. Appellate Defender and Stuart K. Jones, of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

Jack O'Malley, State's Atty. of Cook County, Chicago (Renee Goldfarb, James E. Fitzgerald, Sheila McGinnis, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.


Justice SCARIANO delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant Benny Jordan was convicted by a jury of two counts of first-degree murder and was sentenced to a term of 35 years in the custody of the Illinois Department of Corrections. At defendant's trial, Larry Heard, a Chicago Housing Authority security guard testified that around midnight on May 16, 1989, he and his partner observed a large cluster of teenagers near...

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