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PEOPLE v. PELT

No. 92966.

800 N.E.2d 1193 (2003)

207 Ill.2d 434

279 Ill.Dec. 610

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellant, v. Rayshun PELT, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing Denied November 24, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Ryan and Lisa Madigan, Attorneys General, Springfield, and Jeff Tomczak, State's Attorney, Joliet (Joel D. Bertocchi and Gary Feinerman, Solicitors General, William L. Browers, Colleen M. Griffin, Lisa Hoffman and Linda Woloshin, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, and Norbert J. Goetten, John X. Breslin and Dawn D. Duffy, of the Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, Ottawa, of counsel), for the People. Dennis Doherty, Chicago, for appellee, and Rayshun Pelt, Dixon, appellee pro se.

Justice FITZGERALD delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a jury trial in the circuit court of Will County, defendant, Rayshun Pelt, Sr., was found guilty of aggravated battery of a child, his infant son, Rayshun Pelt, Jr., and first degree felony murder predicated on aggravated battery of a child. Defendant was found not guilty of first degree knowing murder and involuntary manslaughter. After merging defendant's conviction for aggravated battery of a child...

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