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PEOPLE v. LYLES

No. 98357.

840 N.E.2d 1187 (2005)

217 Ill.2d 210

298 Ill.Dec. 752

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Enice LYLES, Jr., Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

December 1, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Pelletier, Deputy Defender, and Lisa E. Rousso, Assistant Appellate Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago, and Diana N. Cherry and Richard D. Frazier, of Metnick, Cherry, Frazier & Sabin, L.L.P., Springfield, for appellant.

Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (Linda D. Woloshin, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, and Renee G. Goldfarb, Alan J. Spellberg and James E. Fitzgerald, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Justice FREEMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

We granted leave to appeal in this case in order to consider petitioner's challenge to the appellate court's dismissal of his appeal for want of prosecution. Pursuant to our supervisory authority, we now reinstate the appeal and remand the cause to the appellate court.

BACKGROUND

In 1982 a Cook County jury convicted petitioner Enice Lyles, Jr., of one count of voluntary manslaughter and two counts...

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