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PEOPLE v. LEE

No. 87089.

752 N.E.2d 1017 (2001)

196 Ill.2d 368

256 Ill.Dec. 775

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Eric LEE, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Supplemental Opinion on Denial of Rehearing July 26, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles M. Schiedel, Deputy Defender, Lawrence Bapst, Assistant Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Springfield, for appellant.

James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield, Michael Kick, State's Attorney, Kankakee (Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General, William L. Browers and Margaret M. O'Connell, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel, and Kristen Hopkins, law student), for the People.

Justice FREEMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a bench trial, the circuit court of Kankakee County convicted defendant, Eric Lee, of first degree murder (720 ILCS 5/9-1(a)(1), (a)(2) (West 1996)) of a police officer and aggravated vehicular hijacking (720 ILCS 5/18-4(a)(3) (West 1996)). At a subsequent death penalty hearing, a jury found defendant eligible for the death penalty and concluded that there were no mitigating factors sufficient to preclude...

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