People v. Creque

Defendant, Frank Creque, was convicted by a jury of aggravated arson and three counts of felony murder for a fire at an apartment building in which three residents died. Judgment was entered on the verdicts, and the trial court sentenced defendant to natural life imprisonment on the felony murder counts and a concurrent 30-year term on the aggravated arson count.

The fire occurred in a four-story residential building in Chicago. On the ground level are a lobby, an office and five apartments, one of which defendant occupied. A wooden stairway runs from the lobby to each of the three upper…