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PEOPLE v. THOMPKINS

No. 1-05-0563.

876 N.E.2d 1088 (2007)

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Willie THOMPKINS, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fifth Division.

September 28, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago (Terri L. Mascherin, Jason J. Green and Wendy L. Fritz, of counsel), for Appellant.

Richard A. Devine, Cook County State's Attorney, Chicago (James E. Fitzgerald, Alan J. Spellberg and Joan F. Frazier, of counsel), for Appellee.

Justice FROSSARD delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant Willie Thompkins appeals the December 8, 2004, order of the circuit court of Cook County sentencing him to two concurrent natural life sentences for the murders of Gerald Holton and Arthur Sheppard. We are asked to consider whether then-Governor Ryan's commutation order which removed the sentencing consequence of capital punishment from defendant's previously imposed death sentence also removed the...

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