Richard Morris - Cook County State's Attorney

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Department of Corrections. (R. 1999) In 1993, petitioner was convicted of possession of a sawed-off shot-gun, possession of a stolen motor vehicle, and escape from custody, all stemming from a single incident in Racine, Wisconsin. He was sentenced upon conviction to two years' imprisonment for the weapons charge, two years six months for the escape from custody, and three years' probation for the charge of operating a vehicle without the consent of the owner. (R. 2011) Detective Louis Perri, Lieutenant Thomas Genther, and Detective Robert Queen, all of the Kenosha, Wisconsin Police Department, testified about the investigation into the murder of Frederick Jones. Detective Queen testified about conversations he and Detective Perri had with defendant after defendant had been taken into custody in Chicago. In a conversation which took place at about 5:28 a.m. on December 3, 1995, defendant, after acknowledging and waiving his Miranda rights, admitted his complicity in that killing. After reducing the substance of defendant's statement to writing the officers offered it to defendant to sign, but he refused, saying that there were some "lies" in it. He then gave a second statement, but again refused to sign it because it still contained "lies." Finally, he gave a third statement, which was consistent with his testimony at trial, and which he signed. (R. 2019-2072) The parties stipulated that the cause of Jones' death was blunt trauma to the head with a contributing condition. (R. 2074-2075) The final witness in aggravation was Linda Shorter, wife of the victim Ervin Shorter, who read her victim-impact statement into the record from the witness stand. (R. 2075-2079) 2
The jury found that there was no factor in mitigation sufficient to preclude the imposition of the death sentence. (R. 2426) 3
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Richard Morris - Cook County State's Attorney

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