PEOPLE v. JOHNSON

Nos. 90678, 90693, 90706.

803 N.E.2d 405 (2003)

208 Ill.2d 53

281 Ill.Dec. 1

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellant, v. DeAngelo JOHNSON, Appellee. The People of the State of Illinois, Appellant, v. Clyde Cowley, Appellee. The People of the State of Illinois, Appellant, v. Jimmie Parker, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

As Modified Upon Denial of Rehearing January 26, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (William L. Browers, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, and Renee G. Goldfarb, Janet Powers Doyle, Alan J. Spellberg, Susan Schierl Sullivan and Veronica Calderon Malavia, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People in No. 90678.

Rita A. Fry, Public Defender, Chicago (Alison Edwards, Assistant Public Defender, of counsel), for appellee in No. 90678.

James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (William L. Browers, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, and Renee G. Goldfarb, Alan J. Spellberg, Janet Powers Doyle, Susan Schierl Sullivan and Veronica Calderon Malavia, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People in No. 90693.

Rita A. Fry, Public Defender, Chicago (Alison Edwards, Assistant Public Defender, of counsel), for appellee in No. 90693.

James E. Ryan and Lisa Madigan, Attorneys General, Springfield, and Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (William L. Browers and Linda Woloshin, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, and Renee G. Goldfarb, James E. Fitzgerald, Veronica Calderon Malavia, Alan J. Spellberg, Janet Powers Doyle, Susan Schierl Sullivan, Michael J. Howlett, Jr., and Annette Collins, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People in No. 90706.

Darrell Widen, Chicago, for appellee in No. 90706.


Justice RARICK delivered the opinion of the court:

These consolidated cases come before us in the wake of our decision in People v. Blue, 189 Ill.2d 99, 138-39, 244 Ill.Dec. 32, 724 N.E.2d 920 (2000), wherein a unanimous court held that the cumulative effect of prosecutorial misconduct and trial error had deprived the defendant of a fundamentally...

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