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PEOPLE v. HARPER

No. 1-91-0195.

636 N.E.2d 977 (1994)

264 Ill. App.3d 318

201 Ill.Dec. 545

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. George HARPER, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, First Division.

June 6, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rita A. Fry, Public Defender, Chicago (Lynn Flanagan Wilson, of counsel) for defendant-appellant.

John M. O'Malley, State's Atty., Chicago (Renee Goldfarb, Linda Woloshin and Michael R. Slovis, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.

Justice O'CONNOR delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, George Harper, shot and killed Kenny Rogers on Magnolia Street in Chicago in 1990. Defendant believed Rogers to be a member of street gang which rivalled his own. Following his conviction for that murder, defendant was sentenced to a 50 year prison term. We affirm.

On the day of the murder, Rogers was accompanied by Timothy Jefferson and Jefferson's brother, Ike Glover, on a walk to a neighborhood...

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