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PEOPLE v. RUIZ

No. 87204.

742 N.E.2d 299 (2000)

194 Ill.2d 454

252 Ill.Dec. 49

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellant, v. Luis RUIZ, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing Denied January 29, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (William L. Browers, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, and Renee Goldfarb and Marie Quinlivan Czech, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Richard H. McLeese, of Thomas D. Decker & Associates, Ltd., Chicago, for appellee.

Justice MILLER delivered the opinion of the court:

This appeal is brought by the State from an order of the circuit court of Cook County granting a motion by the defendant, Luis Ruiz, to preclude the State from seeking the death penalty in the present case. The matter was before the circuit court for a new sentencing hearing, ordered as post-conviction relief. The trial judge concluded that sentencing the defendant to death would be disproportionate to the sentences...

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