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PEOPLE v. STRICKLAND

No. 67201.

609 N.E.2d 1366 (1992)

154 Ill.2d 489

182 Ill.Dec. 551

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Tyrone STRICKLAND, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing Denied March 29, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles M. Schiedel, Deputy Defender, Springfield, Charles W. Hoffman, Asst. Appellate Defender, Chicago, both of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, for appellant and Tyrone Strickland, Pontiac, appellant pro se.

Roland W. Burris, Atty. Gen., Springfield, and Jack O'Malley, State's Attorney, Chicago (Terence M. Madsen, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, and Renee Goldfarb and Marie Quinlivan Czech, Asst. State's Attys., of counsel), for the People.

Chief Justice MILLER delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a bench trial in the circuit court of Cook County, the defendant, Tyrone Strickland, was convicted of murder and of several related offenses. At a separate sentencing hearing, the trial judge found the defendant eligible for the death penalty on the ground that the murder victim was a police officer killed in the line of duty. (See Ill.Rev.Stat. 1985, ch. 38, par. 9-1(b)(1).) The judge found no mitigating...

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