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PEOPLE v. CHILDS

No. 74024.

636 N.E.2d 534 (1994)

159 Ill.2d 217

201 Ill.Dec. 102

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellant, v. Larry CHILDS, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

May 19, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roland W. Burris, Atty. Gen., Springfield, and Jack O'Malley, State's Atty., Chicago (Terence M. Madsen, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, and Renee Goldfarb, Margaret J. Faustmann, Fabio Valentini, and Susan S. Wigoda, Asst. State's Attys., of counsel), for the People.

Michael J. Pelletier, Deputy Defender, and Martin Carlson, Asst. Appellate Defender, Office of State Appellate Defender, and Martha V. Sackley, Christopher M. Murphy and Mark T. Ostrowski, McDermott, Will & Emery, Chicago, for appellee.

Justice McMORROW delivered the opinion of the court:

On May 11, 1990, a jury in the circuit court of Cook County found defendant guilty of murder and armed robbery. The court sentenced defendant to concurrent terms of life imprisonment for the murder and 60 years for armed robbery. The appellate court reversed defendant's conviction, holding that the trial court's ex parte instruction to the jury during its deliberations was reversible error. (

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