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PEOPLE v. COLEMAN

No. 89159.

794 N.E.2d 275 (2002)

206 Ill.2d 261

276 Ill.Dec. 380

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Dedrick COLEMAN, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing Denied December 2, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago (John E. Horn and H. Elizabeth Kelley, Tinley Park, of counsel), 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, James E. Fitzgerald and Celeste Stewart Stack, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Justice GARMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a jury trial in the circuit court of Cook County, defendant, Dedrick Coleman, was convicted of the April 26, 1989, first degree murders of Lance Hale and Avis Welch. He was also convicted of armed robbery and home invasion. Defendant waived the right to be sentenced by a jury and the circuit court subsequently sentenced him to death for the murders. Defendant received prison sentences for

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