PEOPLE v. RUNGE

No. 103529.

917 N.E.2d 940 (2009)

234 Ill.2d 68

334 Ill.Dec. 865

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Paul RUNGE, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Modified on Denial of Rehearing September 28, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (James E. Fitzgerald, Alan J. Spellberg and Jon J. Walters, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.


OPINION

Justice KARMEIER delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion.

Defendant, Paul Runge, was indicted in the circuit court of Cook County for the first degree murders of Yolanda Gutierrez and Jessica Muniz. See 720 ILCS 5/9-1(a) (West 1996). The State filed notice of intent to seek the death penalty. A jury subsequently convicted defendant of both murders. Thereafter, the jury found defendant eligible for the death penalty on eight statutory grounds...

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