PEOPLE v. WILLIAMS

No. 1-92-0380.

635 N.E.2d 694 (1994)

263 Ill. App.3d 649

200 Ill.Dec. 355

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Harold WILLIAMS, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fourth Division.

May 12, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rita A. Fry, Public Defender of Cook County, Chicago (Ira Sheffey, Asst. Public Defender, of counsel), for appellant.

Jack O'Malley, State's Atty., of Cook County, Chicago (Renee Goldfarb and Judy L. DeAngelis, Asst. State's Attys., of counsel), for appellee.


Presiding Justice CAHILL delivered the opinion of the court:

We consider whether the State's race neutral explanations for the exercise of its peremptory challenges in the trial below rebutted a prima facie case of racial discrimination. See Batson v. Kentucky (1986), 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69.

Williams stands convicted of murder (Ill. Rev.Stat.1985...

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