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PEOPLE v. WRIGHT

No. 1-97-0242.

691 N.E.2d 94 (1998)

294 Ill. App.3d 606

229 Ill.Dec. 158

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. David WRIGHT, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fourth Division.

February 5, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rita A. Fry, Public Defender of Cook County, Chicago (Lynn Flanagan Wilson, Asst. Public Defender, of counsel), for Defendant-Appellant.

Richard A. Devine, State's Atty., County of Cook (Renee Goldfarb, William D. Carroll, Mary P. Needham, Asst. State's Attys, of counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Justice WOLFSON delivered the opinion of the court:

On the evening of March 25, 1994, Robert Smith and Tyrone Rockett went to a store in their neighborhood to purchase soft drinks and cookies. A short time later, in Smith's back yard, Smith and Rockett received execution-style gunshot wounds to their heads. They died almost instantly.

A jury found David Wright (David) guilty of those first degree murders. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. At trial, six...

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