PEOPLE v. FIELDS

No. 1-03-2847.

829 N.E.2d 917 (2005)

357 Ill. App.3d 780

293 Ill.Dec. 992

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellant and Cross-Appellee, v. Nathson FIELDS, Defendant-Appellee and Cross-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Sixth Division.

May 20, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney of Cook County (Renee Goldfarb, James Fitzgerald, and Janet Powers Doyle, of counsel), for Appellant.

Herschella G. Conyers of Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic, and Jean Maclean Snyder, Chicago, for Appellee.


Justice McNULTY delivered the opinion of the court:

This case is another step in the extensive history of a murder charge filed against Nathson Fields. After our supreme court affirmed his conviction (People v. Fields, 135 Ill.2d 18, 142 Ill.Dec. 200, 552 N.E.2d 791 (1990)), Fields filed a post-conviction petition for a new trial. The trial court granted the petition and our supreme court...

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