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PEOPLE v. RISSLEY

No. 82536.

795 N.E.2d 174 (2003)

206 Ill.2d 403

276 Ill.Dec. 821

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Jeffrey D. RISSLEY, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

June 19, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles M. Schiedel, Deputy Defender, John J. Hanlon, Assistant Defender, Springfield, and Anna Ahronheim, Chicago, all of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, and David J. Bradford and Christine A. Hill, of Jenner & Block, L.L.C., Chicago, for appellant.

James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Marc P. Bernabei, State's Attorney, Princeton (Barbara A. Preiner and Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitors General, and William L. Browers and Lisa Anne Hoffman, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for the People.

Lawrence C. Marshall and Karen L. Daniel, Chicago, for amici curiae 44 Concerned Illinois Attorneys & Law Professors.

Locke E. Bowman and Jean Maclean Snyder, Chicago, for amici curiae Leaders of the Religious Community.

J. Timothy Eaton, Dennis A. Rendleman, Mary T. McDermott and Selina S. Thomas, Springfield, for amicus curiae Illinois State Bar Association.

Justice FREEMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, Jeffrey Rissley, pled guilty in the circuit court of Bureau County to charges of aggravated kidnapping and murder. At his capital sentencing hearing, a jury found him eligible for the death penalty and further concluded that there were no mitigating factors sufficient to preclude imposition of the death penalty. Accordingly, the circuit court sentenced defendant...

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