People v. J.H.

The defendant, J.H., was charged by indictment with the murder of Frederick Harris. On the defendant’s motion, the circuit court dismissed the indictment because of prosecutorial misconduct. On appeal, a majority of the appellate court reversed and remanded the cause to the circuit court (164 Ill. App. 3d 718). We granted the defendant’s petition for leave to appeal (107 Ill. 2d R. 315).

The record reveals that on August 18, 1984, at approximately 3 a.m., defendant, J.H., age 15, was at the Roosevelt Road subway station on 1200 South State Street in Chicago, Illinois. Defendant had just come…