Supreme Court of Illinois

In a conviction for murder where the death penalty was imposed but later commuted to life imprisonment, dismissal of an appeal which was based on an argument that the evidence was insufficient to establish her capital eligibility as moot is reversed and remanded where the defendant would be subject only to the 20-to-60-year statutory range for first degree murder if capital eligibility had not been properly proved.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/23/2006
• Published 01/23/2006

Judges

• Justice KILBRIDE delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Charles M. Schiedel, Deputy Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Springfield, Alan Raphael, Chicago, for appellant., Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, James P. Hursh, State's Attorney, Belvidere (Gary Feinerman, Solicitor General, Linda D. Woloshin, and Colleen M. Griffin, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for the People.