Supreme Court of Illinois

Conviction for first degree murder, aggravated vehicular hijacking, and aggravated kidnapping is overturned based on ineffective assistance of counsel and the matter is remanded for a new trial where there was such a breakdown of the adversarial process that there was no meaningful testing of the prosecution's case against the defendant.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/18/2004
• Published 03/18/2004

Judges

• Chief Justice McMORROW delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Charles M. Schiedel, Deputy Defender, Allen H. Andrews, Assistant Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Springfield, for appellant., James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield, Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (William L. Browers, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, Renee Goldfarb, William L. Toffenetti and Alan J. Spellberg, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.