PEOPLE v. HOPE

No. 75503.

658 N.E.2d 391 (1995)

168 Ill.2d 1

212 Ill.Dec. 909

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Edgar HOPE, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing Denied December 4, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles M. Schiedel, Deputy Defender, and Kim Robert Fawcett, Assistant Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago, for appellant.

James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Jack O'Malley, State's Attorney, Chicago (Arleen C. Anderson, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, and Renee Goldfarb and James E. Fitzgerald, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.


Chief Justice BILANDIC delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a jury trial in the circuit court of Cook County, the defendant, Edgar Hope, was convicted of one count of murder, one count of attempted murder and two counts of armed robbery. A bifurcated death penalty hearing was subsequently held before the same jury. The jury found the defendant eligible for the death penalty (720 ILCS 5/9-1(b)(3) (West 1992)), and further found that there were no mitigating...

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