Legal Opinion
People v. Sanchez
Illinois Supreme Court
Decided January 18, 1996No. 76616PublishedCited by 125 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
The defendant, Hector Reuben Sanchez, brings this appeal from an order of the circuit court of Lake County dismissing, without an evidentiary hearing, his petition for post-conviction relief. Because the defendant was sentenced to death for the underlying murder conviction, the present appeal lies directly to this court. 134 Ill. 2d R. 651(a).
Following a jury trial in the circuit court of Lake County, the defendant was convicted of murder, attempted murder, aggravated kidnapping, rape, and deviate sexual assault and was sentenced to death for the murder conviction. This court affirmed the…
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- Cuyler v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
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