Legal Opinion

People v. Washington

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided April 18, 1996No. 76651Published

1Opinion of the Court 1

665 N.E.2d 1330 (1996)

171 Ill.2d 475

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellant,

v.

Kurtis WASHINGTON, Appellee.

No. 76651.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

April 18, 1996.

Rehearing Denied June 3, 1996.

Roland Burris, Attorney General, Springfield, and Jack O'Malley, State's Attorney, Chicago (Terence M. Madsen and Arleen C. Anderson, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, and Renee G. Goldfarb, Michael P. Golden and Theodore Fotios Burtzos, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Joel T. Pelz, Ellen R. Kordik and Jacob I. Corre, of Jenner & Block, Chicago, for appellee.

2Opinion of the Court · FreemanJustice Freeman

The question in…

Also in this document: Dissent · Miller; Dissent · Bilandic.

3Cases cited44 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  3. Townsend v. SainSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  4. Herrera v. CollinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
  5. Patterson v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1977

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