People v. Spreitzer

Defendant, Edward Spreitzer, was indicted, along with codefendants Andrew and Thomas Kokoraleis, in Du Page County for the aggravated kidnapping and murder of Linda Sutton. His case was severed from his co-defendants, and after the first phase of his trial he was convicted, after a bench trial, of both charges. A jury was empaneled, at the defendant’s request, at the sentencing phase of his trial. The jury found that the defendant was eligible for the death penalty and that there were no mitigating factors sufficient to preclude the imposition of a sentence of death. The circuit court then…