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PEOPLE v. CHILDRESS

No. 84566.

730 N.E.2d 32 (2000)

191 Ill.2d 168

246 Ill.Dec. 352

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. John CHILDRESS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing Denied May 30, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marshall J. Hartman, Deputy Defender, and Sheldon B. Nagelberg, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago, for Appellant.

James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (William L. Browers, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, Renee Goldfarb, William D. Carroll, and Eileen M. O'Neill, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Justice HEIPLE delivered the opinion of the court:

The petitioner, John Childress, appeals from a Cook County circuit court order dismissing his post-conviction petition. Because petitioner was sentenced to death, this court has jurisdiction over the instant appeal pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 651(a) (134 Ill.2d R. 651(a)). For the following reasons, we now affirm.

BACKGROUND

A jury in the circuit court of Cook County convicted petitioner of first...

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