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PEOPLE v. ORTIZ

No. 107363.

919 N.E.2d 941 (2009)

235 Ill.2d 319

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellant, v. Salvador ORTIZ, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

November 19, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, Richard A. Devine and Anita Alvarez, State's Attorneys, Chicago (James E. Fitzgerald, Alan J. Spellberg, Michelle Katz, Tasha-Marie Kelly and Michele Grimaldi Stein, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Douglas B. Sanders, Jenny A. Austin, Angela C. Vigil and Mark A. Oates, of Baker & McKenzie LLP, Chicago, for appellee.

Karen L. Daniel, Joshua A. Tepfer, Chicago, and John Christopher Bernard, Jeffrey Han, Amy Malinowski and Danya Resnick, law students, for amicus curiae Center on Wrongful Convictions.

OPINION

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

Defendant Salvador Ortiz was convicted of first degree murder after a bench trial and sentenced to 47 years in prison. On direct appeal, the appellate court affirmed defendant's conviction and sentence. People v. Ortiz, No. 1-94-2094, 281 Ill.App.3d 1131, 233 Ill.Dec. 771, 701 N.E.2d 836 (1996) (unpublished order under Supreme Court Rule 23). Defendant's first two postconviction...

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