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PEOPLE v. ORTIZ

No. 88833.

752 N.E.2d 410 (2001)

196 Ill.2d 236

256 Ill.Dec. 530

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Edwin ORTIZ, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

May 24, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Bradley, Chicago, for appellant.

James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Marc P. Bernabei, State's Attorney, Princeton (Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General, and William L. Browers and Margaret M. O'Connell, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for the People.

Justice FREEMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a bench trial in the circuit court of Bureau County, defendant Edwin Ortiz was convicted of drug trafficking (720 ILCS 570/401.1 (West 1994)) and sentenced to 35 years' imprisonment. Defendant appealed, and in December 1995 the appellate court filed with its court clerk a document which purported to reverse defendant's conviction on the grounds of insufficiency of the evidence. The State's petition for...

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