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PEOPLE v. THOMAS

No. 88126.

743 N.E.2d 552 (2001)

195 Ill.2d 37

252 Ill.Dec. 684

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Walter L. THOMAS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

January 19, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Schiedel, Deputy Defender, and Charles W. Hoffman, Assistant Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago, for appellant.

James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Joe Birkett, State's Attorney, Wheaton (Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General, and William L. Browers and David H. Iskowich, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for the People.

Justice MILLER delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant, Walter L. Thomas, brings this appeal from an order of the circuit court of Du Page County dismissing, without an evidentiary hearing, his petition for post-conviction relief. Because the defendant received the death penalty for the underlying murder conviction, the defendant's appeal lies directly to this court. 134 Ill.2d R. 651(a). For the reasons that follow, we reverse the judgment of the circuit...

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