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IN RE CHRISTOPHER K.

No. 98597.

841 N.E.2d 945 (2005)

217 Ill.2d 348

299 Ill.Dec. 213

In re CHRISTOPHER K., a Minor (The People of the State of Illinois, Appellant, v. Christopher K., Appellee).

Supreme Court of Illinois.

December 15, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (Linda D. Woloshin, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, and Renee Goldfarb, Susan Schierl Sullivan, Annette Collins, Ashley Romito, Veronica Calderon Malavia and Alan J. Spellberg, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Cathryn S. Crawford, and Thomas F. Geraghty, Chicago, and Richard Lindstrom, Haley Stein, Jennifer Lupfer, Jennifer Bruni, Tiffany Fobes, Alejandro Ponce de Leon, Christopher Stanton, Guy Temple, Alfred Wang and Andrew Whiteup, law students, for Appellee.

Marsha L. Levick and Nina W. Chernoff, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for amici curiae Juvenile Law Center et al.

Justice GARMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

After a jury trial, respondent, Christopher K., was adjudicated delinquent for the offense of first degree murder (720 ILCS 5/9-1 (West 1998)). The trial court imposed both a juvenile sentence and an adult sentence pursuant to the extended juvenile jurisdiction (EJJ) statute of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 (705 ILCS 405/5-810 (West 1998)). The appellate court affirmed respondent's conviction, but reversed his adult...

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