PEOPLE v. DAVIS

No. 105092.

899 N.E.2d 238 (2008)

231 Ill.2d 349

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

Supreme Court of Illinois.

November 20, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Pelletier, Patricia Unsinn, Deputy Defenders, and Douglas R. Hoff, Assistant Appellate Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago, for appellant.

Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (James E. Fitzgerald, Alan J. Spellberg, Annette Collins, Veronica Calderon Malavia, Judy L. Deangelis, Amy Watroba Kern, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.


OPINION

Justice THOMAS delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion:

Defendant, Jermaine Davis, was charged with aggravated battery, armed robbery and first degree murder. The first degree murder charge was brought under three different theories—intentional murder, knowing murder (also called strong probability murder), and felony murder. See 720 ILCS 5/9-1(a)(1), (a)(3) (West 2004). A jury in the circuit court of Cook County returned a general...

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