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PEOPLE v. LOVEJOY

No. 104443.

919 N.E.2d 843 (2009)

235 Ill.2d 97

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Laurence LOVEJOY, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing Denied November 23, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Pelletier, State Appellate Defender, Charles M. Schiedel, Deputy Defender, and Kim Robert Fawcett, Assistant Appellate Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago, for appellant.

Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Joseph E. Birkett, State's Attorney, Wheaton (Michael A. Scodro, Solicitor General, Michael M. Glick and Erin M. O'Connell, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for the People.

OPINION

Chief Justice FITZGERALD delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion.

Following a jury trial in Du Page County, defendant, Laurence Lovejoy, was convicted of the first degree murder of his 16-year-old stepdaughter, Erin Justice. Defendant was found eligible for the death penalty on two statutory grounds and sentenced to death. On direct appeal to this court (Ill. Const.1970, art. VI, § 4(b); 134 Ill.2d R. 603), defendant raises numerous...

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