PEOPLE v. HAYWOOD

No. 1-91-1642.

621 N.E.2d 47 (1993)

250 Ill. App.3d 371

190 Ill.Dec. 178

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Christopher HAYWOOD, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Sixth Division.

July 9, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rita A. Fry, Public Defender of Cook County, Chicago (Alison Edwards, of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

Jack O'Malley, State's Atty. of Cook County, Chicago (Renee Goldfarb, Jane Liechty Loeb and Daniel M. Rabinovitz, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.


Justice EGAN delivered the opinion of the court:

A jury convicted the defendant, Christopher Haywood, of the first degree murder of Dion Johnson; he was sentenced to 22 years' imprisonment. He contends that he was denied a fair trial because of introduction of improper evidence, improper argument by the State and an improper instruction. He does not contend that the evidence failed to establish his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

On March 9, 1990, at 7 a...

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