Appellate Court of Illinois· 2/7/1997

People v. Serrano

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676 N.E.2d 1011
286 Ill. App. 3d 485
222 Ill. Dec. 47
1997 Ill. App. LEXIS 43

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holding that counsel’s failure to tender an instruction regarding compulsion as an affirmative defense rose to the level of ineffective assistance of counsel in a case where the defendant admitted to the murder but presented the affirmative defense of compulsion
concludmg, notwithstanding the People's statute-based argument that compulsion is not a defense to murder, that a \defendant cannot be guilty of felony murder if he was compelled to commit the underlying felony\
ineffective assistance where defense counsel argues a theory of defense but then fails to offer an instruction on that theory of defense
in an appeal arising from convictions of felony murder, the court noted that duress may be raised as a defense to felony murder but not to other forms of homicide
in an appeal arising from convictions of felony murder, the court noted that duress may be raised as a defense to felony murder but not to other forms of homicide
the.court determined that the defendant, who had committed robbery under compulsion, was not Hable under a felony murder theory for a murder unexpectedly committed by those who had compelled him

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