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PEOPLE v. JOHNSON

Docket No. 5-11-0112.

998 N.E.2d 185 (2013)

2013 IL App (5th) 110112

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Corey JOHNSON, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District.

October 9, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Corey Johnson, Menard, IL, pro se.

Brendan F. Kelly , State's Attorney, Belleville, IL, Patrick Delfino , Director, Stephen E. Norris , Deputy Director, Jennifer Camden , Staff Attorney, Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, Mt. Vernon, IL, for Appellee.

Shobha L. Mahadev , Clinical Assistant Professor, Project Director Illinois Coalition for the Fair Sentencing of Children, Children & Family Justice Center, Northwestern University School of Law, Lawrence A. Wojcik , Eric M. Roberts , DLA Piper LLP (US), Chicago, IL, for Amicus Curiae.

Corey Johnson, of Menard, appellant pro se.

Brendan F. Kelly , State's Attorney, of Belleville ( Patrick Delfino , Stephen E. Norris , and Jennifer Camden , all of State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor's Office, of counsel), for the People.

Shobha L. Mahadev , Project Director of Illinois Coalition for the Fair Sentencing of Children, of Northwestern University School of Law, and Lawrence A. Wojcik and Eric M. Roberts , both of DLA Piper LLP (US), both of Chicago, for amicus curiae.

OPINION

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

¶ 1 Defendant, Corey Johnson, age 16 at the time of offenses in 1999, was tried as an adult and convicted of first-degree murder (720 ILCS 5/9-1(a) (West 1998)) in the shooting deaths of Charles Evans, age 37 at the time of his death, and Jeremiah Scott, age 18 at the time of his death. The prosecution's theory was that defendant...

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