PEOPLE v. BROWN

No. 1-09-1940.

967 N.E.2d 1004 (2012)

359 Ill. Dec. 974

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Dante BROWN, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, First Division.

Rehearing Denied May 9, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Pelletier , Jennifer Bontrager , both of State Appellate Defender's Office, Chicago, for appellant.

Anita M. Alvarez State's Attorney of Cook County, Chicago ( Alan J. Spellberg , Marie Quinlivan Czech , Mary Beth Kinnerk , of counsel), for the People.


OPINION

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

¶ 1 Following a jury trial, defendant, Dante Brown, was convicted on an accountability theory of two counts of first degree murder and was sentenced to a statutorily mandated sentence of natural life in prison without the possibility of parole. On appeal, defendant asserts that: (1) in light of the evidence of his cognitive disabilities, the trial court improperly denied defendant...

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