PEOPLE v. SALAZAR

No. 73399.

643 N.E.2d 698 (1994)

162 Ill.2d 513

205 Ill.Dec. 407

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Manuel SALAZAR, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing Denied December 5, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles M. Schiedel, Deputy Defender, and Charles W. Hoffman, Asst. Appellate Defender, Office of State Appellate Defender, Chicago (Marlene Kamish, Chicago, and Eliot L. Grossman, Los Angeles, CA, of counsel), for appellant.

Roland W. Burris, Atty. Gen., Springfield, and James Glasgow, State's Atty, Joliet (Rosalyn B. Kaplan, Sol. Gen., and Terence M. Madsen, Arleen C. Anderson and Michael M. Glick, Asst. Attys. Gen., Chicago, of counsel), for the People.


Justice McMORROW delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a jury trial in the circuit court of McLean County, defendant, Manuel Salazar, was found guilty of murdering an on-duty police officer. (Ill.Rev.Stat.1983, ch. 38, pars. 9—1(a)(1), (b)(1).) The jury found that the defendant should be sentenced to death for this offense (Ill.Rev.Stat.1983, ch. 38, par. 9—1(d)) and the trial court entered conviction and sentence in accordance with the jury...

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