PEOPLE v. CHAVEZ

No. 1-01-0758.

789 N.E.2d 354 (2003)

338 Ill. App.3d 835

273 Ill.Dec. 454

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Raul CHAVEZ, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Third Division.

Rehearing Denied May 29, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis X. Speh, Jr., Steger; and Tommy H. Brewer, Chicago, for Appellant.

Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney of Cook County, Chicago (Renee Goldfarb, Heather Weiss, and Katherine Blakey Cox, of counsel), for Appellee.


Justice WOLFSON delivered the opinion of the court:

On November 10, 1998, at about 9:00 p.m., a car pulled up next to where Francisco Rodriguez and John Sparks were walking. A man in the car asked them: "Who's got the weed?" When the two men stopped and looked toward the car, the man who asked the question fired a gun at them four or five times. Rodriguez was struck in the head, fatally.

Defendant Raul Chavez was arrested three days later. He was tried before...

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