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PEOPLE v. COULTER

No. 1-99-0432.

748 N.E.2d 240 (2001)

321 Ill. App.3d 644

254 Ill.Dec. 794

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Dwayne COULTER, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Sixth Division.

Rehearing Denied May 18, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago (Michael J. Pelletier, Debra R. Salinger, of counsel), for Appellant.

State's Attorney of County of Cook, Chicago (Richard A. Devine, Renee Goldfarb, Barbara L. Jones, William D. Carroll, Judy L. DeAngelis, of counsel), for Appellee.

Justice GALLAGHER delivered the opinion of the court:

In 1987, a jury convicted defendant Dwayne Coulter, an African-American, of first degree murder in the death of Michael Ridges, a white Prospect Heights police officer, and of conspiring with three other men to kill Robert Fischer. Defendant was sentenced to natural life imprisonment. The instant action follows a previous appeal in which this court held that under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U...

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