People v. Clark

A juvenile petition naming the defendant, Gary Clark, was filed in the circuit court of Macon County seeking to have the defendant, who was born February 7, 1970, made a ward of the court and asking the court to commence proceedings against him pursuant to the Juvenile Court Act (the Act) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 37, par. 701 — 1 et seq.). The petition alleged that, on or about July 14, 1984, the defendant had murdered Effie and Prentice Curfman in the course of committing a felony, residential burglary. The petition also alleged that the defendant was involved in a second, unrelated…