PEOPLE v. BLUE

No. 87245.

792 N.E.2d 1149 (2001)

205 Ill.2d 1

275 Ill.Dec. 376

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Murray BLUE, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

September 27, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Schiedel, Deputy Defender, Springfield, and Steven Clark, Assistant Defender, Chicago, both of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, for appellant.

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


Justice FITZGERALD delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a jury trial in the Cook County circuit court, the defendant, Murray Blue, was convicted of first degree murder for killing Louis Moret. The jury found the defendant eligible for the death penalty. See 720 ILCS 5/9-1(b)(3) (West 1998). The jury then found no mitigating circumstances sufficient to preclude the death penalty, and the trial court sentenced the defendant to death. That sentence has been...

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