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PEOPLE v. AUSTIN

No. 1-92-4368.

641 N.E.2d 970 (1994)

267 Ill.App.3d 469

204 Ill.Dec. 540

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Rayfield AUSTIN, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Second Division.

October 18, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rita A. Fry, Public Defender of Cook County, Chicago (James N. Perlman, of counsel), for appellant.

Jack O'Malley, State's Atty. of Cook County, Chicago (Renee Goldfarb, Annette Collins, Robert F. Hogan, of counsel), for appellee.

Justice McCORMICK delivered the opinion of the court:

A jury found defendant, Rayfield Austin, guilty of first degree murder and the trial court sentenced him to natural life in the Illinois Department of Corrections because he had also been convicted of second degree murder in Michigan. We affirm the conviction because the trial court did not commit plain error by giving jury instructions permitting the jury to return a verdict of guilty of murder without also signing...

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