Legal Opinion
People v. Jones
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided March 30, 2001No. 1-97-1299 RelPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McBRIDE
In April of 1987, defendant Anthony Jones (petitioner) was found guilty by a jury of the murder of his 93-year-old great-grandmother Estella Small and the aggravated battery of Ms. Small’s 61-year-old caregiver, Dorothy Hill. Jones was sentenced to an extended term of 80 years’ imprisonment for the murder and a concurrent term of 5 years for the aggravated battery. These judgments were affirmed on direct appeal by this court in an unpublished order. People v. Jones, 187 Ill. App. 3d 1123 (1989).
Since that order was entered Jones has sought postconviction relief on more than one occasion…
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- Apprendi v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- In Re WINSHIPSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Teague v. LaneSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- Jones v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1999
- People v. ColemanIllinois Supreme Court · 1998
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3Cited by1 opinion
- People v. JonesAppellate Court of Illinois · 2001