PEOPLE v. TESSIER

No. 82-512.

123 Ill. App.3d 984 (1984)

463 N.E.2d 1006

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. NORMAN L. TESSIER, JR., Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fifth District.

Opinion filed May 9, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel D. Yuhas and Lawrence Bapst, both of State Appellate Defender's Office, of Springfield, and Edwin Anders, law student, for appellant.

J. Lewis Wingate, State's Attorney, of Vienna (Stephen E. Norris and Raymond F. Buckley, Jr., both of State's Attorneys Appellate Service Commission, of counsel), for the People.


Judgment affirmed.

JUSTICE JONES delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an appeal from the circuit court of Johnson County. A jury found the defendant guilty of burglary, felony theft, and misdemeanor theft, and the appeal is from the judgment rendered on the verdict.

On appeal, the defendant asserts (1) he did not knowingly and intelligently waive his right to counsel as required under Supreme Court Rule 401(a) (87 Ill.2d R. 401(a)), since he...

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