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PEOPLE v. MORGAN

No. 92843.

817 N.E.2d 524 (2004)

212 Ill.2d 148

288 Ill.Dec. 166

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Samuel MORGAN, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

September 23, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Samuel Tenenbaum, Matthew J. O'Hara, Shobha L. Mahadev and John L. Hayes, of Sachnoff & Weaver, Ltd., and Thomas F. Geraghty, Chicago, for appellant.

Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (Renee Goldfarb and Marie Quinlivan Czech, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Justice RARICK delivered the opinion of the court:

This matter is before the court on appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Cook County denying a successive petition for postconviction relief filed by defendant, Samuel Morgan, based on newly discovered evidence. Defendant argued that the new evidence, particularly the recanted testimony of an eyewitness, established that he was actually innocent of the crimes for which he had been convicted. The circuit court...

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