PEOPLE v. PORTER

No. 74438.

647 N.E.2d 972 (1995)

164 Ill.2d 400

207 Ill.Dec. 479

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Anthony PORTER, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing Denied April 3, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth N. Flaxman, Chicago, for appellant.

Roland Burris, Atty. Gen., Springfield, and Jack O'Malley, State's Atty., Chicago (Arleen C. Anderson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, and Renee G. Goldfarb and James S. Veldman, Asst. State's Attys., of counsel), for the People.


Justice FREEMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

A Cook County jury convicted defendant of several crimes committed in Chicago's Washington Park on August 15, 1982, including the killing of Jerry Hillard and Marilyn Green. For the murders, the trial judge sentenced defendant to death. A majority of this court affirmed the convictions and sentence on direct appeal. (People v. Porter (1986), 111...

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