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PEOPLE v. SANTIAGO

No. 1-94-3961.

665 N.E.2d 380 (1996)

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jose SANTIAGO, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, First Division.

April 15, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rita A. Fry, Public Defender of Cook County (Dennis E. Urban, Asst. Public Defender, of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

Jack O'Malley, State's Attorney, County of Cook (Renee Goldfarb, LaTisha Foster, Asst. State's Attorneys, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.

Justice WOLFSON delivered the opinion of the court:

Something puzzling, unexplained, and, thankfully, rare happened in this otherwise mundane armed robbery case: the information named the wrong victim and no one in the trial court seemed to have noticed.

Defendant Jose Santiago (Santiago) seeks reversal of his armed robbery conviction. He contends there was a fatal variance between the allegations in the charging instrument and the proof at trial. His contention...

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