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PEOPLE v. DAVIS

No. 95614.

821 N.E.2d 1154 (2004)

213 Ill.2d 459

290 Ill.Dec. 580

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Taiwan M. DAVIS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

December 16, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel M. Kirwan, Deputy Defender, and E. Joyce Randolph, Assistant Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, Mt. Vernon, for appellant, and Taiwan M. Davis, Centralia, appellant pro se.

Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, and William Haine, State's Attorney, Edwardsville (Gary Feinerman, Solicitor General, and Linda D. Woloshin and Jay Paul Hoffmann, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for the People.

Justice FITZGERALD delivered the opinion of the court:

On October 1, 1998, defendant Taiwan Davis was charged by indictment with two counts of first degree murder of Richard Skelton. Count I alleged first degree knowing murder (720 ILCS 5/9-1(a)(2) (West 1998)), and count II alleged first degree felony murder predicated on mob action (720 ILCS 5/25-1(a)(1) (West 1998)). At the jury instructions conference, the circuit court of Madison County indicated it would give...

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