PEOPLE v. ROBINSON

No. 86110.

719 N.E.2d 662 (1999)

187 Ill.2d 461

241 Ill.Dec. 533

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Will ROBINSON et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

September 23, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rita A. Fry, Public Defender, Chicago (Lester Finkle, Emily Eisner and Evelyn G. Baniewicz, Assistant Public Defenders, of counsel), for Appellants.

James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield, Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (William L. Browers, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, Renee Goldfarb, Judy L. DeAngelis, Mary L. Boland, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.


Justice HEIPLE delivered the opinion of the court:

In these consolidated appeals, defendants died while the direct appeals of their criminal convictions were pending before the appellate court. The appellate court dismissed the appeals but declined to void the defendants' convictions (298 Ill.App.3d 866, 232 Ill.Dec. 901,

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