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PEOPLE v. WASHINGTON

No. 1-90-3121.

628 N.E.2d 351 (1993)

256 Ill. App.3d 445

194 Ill.Dec. 854

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Artra WASHINGTON, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, First Division.

November 15, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rita A. Fry, First Asst. Public Defender of Cook County, Chicago, for defendant-appellant (Lisa S. Ottenfeld, Asst. Public Defender, of counsel).

Jack O'Malley, Cook County State's Atty., Chicago, for plaintiff-appellee (Renee Goldfarb, Veronica X. Calderon, and Catherine A. Hufford, Asst. State's Attys., of counsel).

Justice BUCKLEY delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a jury trial, defendant Artra Washington was found guilty of first-degree murder. The trial judge sentenced defendant to 60 years in the Illinois State Penitentiary. On appeal, defendant contends: (1) that the trial judge erred in finding that the defense failed to make a prima facie showing of purposeful discrimination in the State's exercise of its peremptory challenges against black males; (2...

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