PEOPLE v. GOODMAN

No. 1-01-0532.

806 N.E.2d 1124 (2004)

347 Ill. App.3d 278

282 Ill.Dec. 536

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. April GOODMAN, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Sixth Division.

March 5, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Renee Goldfarb, Peter D. Fischer and Carol L. Gaines, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel, and Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, County of Cook, Chicago, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Lawrence C. Marshall, of counsel, and Thomas M. Breen, Todd S. Pugh, and Gina T. Marotta, of Thomas M. Breen & Associates, Chicago, for Defendant-Appellant.


Justice TULLY delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a jury trial, defendant, April Goodman, was found guilty of solicitation of murder for hire (720 ILCS 5/8-1.2 (West 1998)), sentenced to 30 years' incarceration, and fined $25,000. Defendant timely appeals contending: (1) the trial court abused its discretion when it instructed the jury with a nonpattern instruction; (2) this matter must be remanded for fitness hearings because the trial court failed to make...

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