Illinois Supreme Court· 10/19/1984

People v. Barnard

Citations

470 N.E.2d 1005
104 Ill. 2d 218
83 Ill. Dec. 585
1984 Ill. LEXIS 375

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would not have been proper for trial judge to “interfere with defense counsel’s strategy and give the self-defense and voluntary manslaughter instruction sua sponte”
“We have tested the performance of [the] defendant’s counsel, both at trial and on appeal, by the standards adopted by the Supreme Court in Strickland.”
a “finding of not guilty of armed violence based on murder is not a finding that the defendant did not commit murder”
a “finding of not guilty of armed violence based on murder is not a finding that the defendant did not commit murder”

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Judges: Ryan, Simon

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