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People v. McClellan

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided July 5, 1978No. 77-492PublishedCited by 10 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Buckley

This is an appeal from a criminal conviction of murder and armed robbery. For the reasons stated below, the judgment of conviction is affirmed.

The defendant, Ronald McClellan, was indicted jointly with Wilbur Cain for the September 12, 1974, shotgun murder and armed robbery of Robert Dietz, a mail carrier. After a jury trial in the circuit court of Cook County, McClellan was found guilty of murder and armed robbery and was sentenced to concurrent terms of 200 to 600 years and 25 to 75 years. Cain was found guilty of armed robbery and sentenced to a term of from 10 to 30 years.

At McClellan’s…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Bruton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. Schneble v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  3. People v. PickettIllinois Supreme Court · 1973
  4. People v. HeflinIllinois Supreme Court · 1978
  5. The PEOPLE v. AllenIllinois Supreme Court · 1959

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3Cited by10 opinions

  1. People v. RichardsonIllinois Supreme Court · 1988
  2. People v. CarrasquilloAppellate Court of Illinois · 2020
  3. People v. PeeblesAppellate Court of Illinois · 1984
  4. People v. LuckettAppellate Court of Illinois · 1995
  5. People v. GrabbeAppellate Court of Illinois · 1986

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