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PEOPLE v. SMITH

No. 54575.

93 Ill.2d 179 (1982)

442 N.E.2d 1325

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. DAN W. SMITH, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied November 24, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary Robinson, Deputy Defender, and Josette Skelnik, Assistant Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, of Elgin, for appellant.

Tyrone C. Fahner, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Dennis Schumacher, State's Attorney, of Oregon (Phyllis J. Perko and William L. Browers, of the State's Attorneys Appellate Service Commission, of Elgin, of counsel), for the People.

Reversed and remanded.

JUSTICE WARD delivered the opinion of the court:

Dan W. Smith, the defendant, was convicted of murder and armed robbery after a jury trial in the circuit court of Ogle County. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder and to 50 years for the armed robbery. Before trial, the defendant had unsuccessfully attempted to have two incriminating statements, which he had given while in police custody, suppressed. The statements were...

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