Court Opinion

ID: 9745345
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 22:50:08.371071+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:59.226164
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE SIMON, concurring: I concur in the court’s judgment that the sentence in this case should be vacated and the cause remanded to the circuit court for a new sentencing hearing. While I agree with the reasons offered by the majority for reversing the death penalty in this case, I disagree with its comments regarding People ex rel. Carey v. Cousins (1979), 77 Ill. 2d 531 (106 Ill. 2d at 362). For the reasons set forth in my separate opinions in People v. Lewis (1981), 88 Ill. 2d 129, 179 (Simon, J., dissenting), in People v. Silagy (1984), 101 Ill. 2d 147, 184 (Simon, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part), and in People v. Albanese (1984), 104 Ill. 2d 504, 549 (Simon, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part), I believe that Cousins should be overruled.