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PEOPLE v. OLIVERA

No. 1-90-3054.

617 N.E.2d 98 (1993)

246 Ill. App.3d 921

186 Ill.Dec. 859

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Joel OLIVERA, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fifth Division.

April 30, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Pelletier, Deputy Defender, Patricia Unsinn, Asst. Appellate Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago (James A. Clark, Jay Williams, Schiff Hardin & Waite, of counsel), for appellant.

Jack O'Malley, State's Atty., Renee Goldfarb, James Fitzgerald, Asst. State's Attys., Chicago (Christine Perille, Sp. Asst. State's Atty., of counsel), for appellee.

Justice MURRAY delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant, Joel Olivera (Olivera), and codefendant, Jorge Vargas (Vargas), were charged by indictment with the offenses of first degree murder and armed violence for their respective roles in the fatal shooting of Raphael Torres on July 29, 1988.1 Following a jury trial, Olivera was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to 35 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections...

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