PEOPLE v. TENNER

No. 79423.

677 N.E.2d 859 (1997)

175 Ill.2d 372

222 Ill.Dec. 325

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. James TENNER, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing Denied March 31, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joshua Sachs, of Sachs & Drake, and Raymond D. Pijon, 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 Judy L. DeAngelis, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.


Justice MILLER delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant, James Tenner, brings this appeal from an order of the circuit court of Cook County dismissing his post-conviction petition without an evidentiary hearing. Because the defendant received the death penalty for the underlying first-degree murder convictions, the present appeal lies directly to this court. 134 Ill.2d R. 651(a).

The circumstances of the defendant's offenses are fully set forth in...

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