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- Title: People v. Pierce
- Author : Supreme Court of Illinois
- Release Date : January 22, 1972
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 56 KB
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Lemont Pierce, herein referred to as defendant, and two others, Robert Berry and Walter Caffey, were indicted for the murder
of Jake Jones, Jr. Pierce and Berry were jointly tried by a jury in the circuit court of Cook County which acquitted Berry
but found Pierce guilty of voluntary manslaughter. He was sentenced to fourteen years in the penitentiary and appeals, contending:
(1) he was denied due process by the police lineup procedures; (2) he was not proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt; (3)
the jury should not have been given instructions on voluntary manslaughter, and (4) the failure to sequester the jury requires
that he be granted a new trial. On the evening of August 13, 1960, Pierce, Caffey and the deceased, Jake Jones, Jr., left a party. An argument developed
between Pierce and Jones over events which had occurred earlier that day in which the latter was said to have struck Berry
with a pipe during an altercation. As they approached 15th and Kedvale in Chicago, they met Shirley Skipper who said that
Jones had raped her friend. The argument intensified and Jones struck Pierce.