PEOPLE v. DAMERON

No. 87443.

751 N.E.2d 1111 (2001)

196 Ill.2d 156

256 Ill.Dec. 274

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Tony J. DAMERON, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

May 24, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Schiedel, Deputy Defender, and Charles W. Hoffman, Assistant Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago, for appellant.

James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield, and David R. Akemann State's Attorney, St. Charles (Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General, and William L. Browers and Colleen M. Griffin, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for the People.


Justice FITZGERALD delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a jury trial in the Kane County circuit court, the defendant, Tony Dameron, was convicted of first degree murder for killing his three-month-old daughter. The defendant waived his right to a sentencing-phase jury, and the trial court found him eligible for the death penalty. The court then found no mitigating circumstances sufficient to preclude the death penalty and sentenced the defendant to death...

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