{ "id": 2532555, "name": "The People of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. George H. Healey, Jr., Defendant-Appellant", "name_abbreviation": "People v. Healey", "decision_date": "1971-02-12", "docket_number": "No. 70-142", "first_page": "190", "last_page": "191", "citations": [ { "type": "official", "cite": "132 Ill. App. 2d 190" } ], "court": { "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.", "id": 8837, "name": "Illinois Appellate Court" }, "jurisdiction": { "id": 29, "name_long": "Illinois", "name": "Ill." }, "cites_to": [ { "cite": "120 Ill.App.2d 313", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill. App. 2d", "case_ids": [ 1583526 ], "pin_cites": [ { "page": "353" } ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill-app-2d/120/0313-01" ] }, { "cite": "120 Ill.App.2d 367", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill. App. 2d", "case_ids": [ 1583500 ], "year": 1970, "pin_cites": [ { "page": "371-373" } ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill-app-2d/120/0367-01" ] }, { "cite": "35 Ill.2d 390", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill. 2d", "case_ids": [ 5379499 ], "year": 1970, "pin_cites": [ { "page": "397, 398" } ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill-2d/35/0390-01" ] }, { "cite": "39 Ill.2d 346", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill. 2d", "case_ids": [ 2856749 ], "year": 1966, "pin_cites": [ { "page": "355, 356" } ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill-2d/39/0346-01" ] } ], "analysis": { "cardinality": 299, "char_count": 3364, "ocr_confidence": 0.717, "pagerank": { "raw": 5.729980908014003e-08, "percentile": 0.3591946866400319 }, "sha256": "f69a41de22e8d3f9b96f8444b5d7ad4e3c5d926f63b56ea2c3cd23005c6fdc7c", "simhash": "1:0209c9cbbb0eb328", "word_count": 544 }, "last_updated": "2023-07-14T15:45:25.950864+00:00", "provenance": { "date_added": "2019-08-29", "source": "Harvard", "batch": "2018" }, "casebody": { "judges": [], "parties": [ "The People of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. George H. Healey, Jr., Defendant-Appellant." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "Mr. JUSTICE SEIDENFELD\ndelivered the opinion of the court:\nDefendant was sentenced to a term of 40-75 years upon his mid-trial plea of guilty to the murder of his wife. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 38, par. 9 \u2014 1 (a) (1).) He asks that his sentence be reduced to the statutory minimum of 14 years. We have concluded that the circumstances do not warrant the exercise of our authority to reduce sentences. (Supreme Court Rule 615(b) ).\nThe killing was particularly brutal and unprovoked. After defendant had missed his wife with a shot which landed between her and a neighbor in whose apartment the victim sought refuge, he then fired two bullets into his wife\u2019s body. After this the gun apparently jammed and defendant manually ejected two bullets, then struck his victim with the butt of the gun a minimum of ten blows to the face and the head, crushing her skull.\nThe testimony adduced and the reports received at a comprehensive hearing in aggravation and mitigation support the sentence. The history of defendant\u2019s marital problems culminating in his wife\u2019s refusal of reconciliation in no way mitigates the killing. It is apparent from the record that the trial court considered the evidence of the extent of defendant\u2019s drinking prior to the crime (with no evidence that he was intoxicated when he committed the act); the relationship of the victim and the defendant; and the psychiatric reports but concluded that these factors did not suggest any greater leniency than shown in the sentence, considering the vicious and unprovoked nature of the crime. The sentence does not constitute a great departure from the fundamental law and its spirit or purpose, nor is it disproportionate to the nature of the offense, and therefore we will not disturb it. See People v. Caldwell (1968), 39 Ill.2d 346, 355, 356; People v. Hicks (1966), 35 Ill.2d 390, 397, 398; People v. Buell (1970), 120 Ill.App.2d 367, 371-373; People v. Richards (1970), 120 Ill.App.2d 313, 353; People v. Haynes, 2d Dist., No. 70-111.\nThe judgment below is affirmed.\nJudgment affirmed.\nT. MORAN, P. J., and ARRAHAMSON, J., concur.\nIn the reports defendant was characterized as having \u201can inadequate personality\u201d. His affinity to alcohol and frequent job changes was seen as illustrating his inadequacy and insecurity. One of the reports concluded that defendant\u2019s misdeed \u201cwas a specific act directed toward a specific object\u201d and that \u201cthe defendant is treatable and any future homicidal acts from the clinical viewpoint are most unlikely\u201d. Under all of the circumstances of this case, these are considerations which, rather than reflecting unfavorably on the propriety of this particular sentence, may be more fully assessed and realized in parole procedures. (Counsel have noted in oral argument that defendant would be eligible for parole in approximately 11 years under the present sentence, compared with aproximately 8 years if we reduced the sentence to a minimum term of 14 years.)", "type": "majority", "author": "Mr. JUSTICE SEIDENFELD" } ], "attorneys": [ "Morton Zwick, of Defender Project, of Chicago, (E. Roger Horsky, of counsel,) for appellant.", "William V. Hopf, State\u2019s Attorney, of Wheaton, (Ralph J. Gust, Jr., Assistant State\u2019s Attorney, of counsel,) for the People." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "The People of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. George H. Healey, Jr., Defendant-Appellant.\n(No. 70-142;\nSecond District\nFebruary 12, 1971.\nRehearing denied April 1, 1971.\nMorton Zwick, of Defender Project, of Chicago, (E. Roger Horsky, of counsel,) for appellant.\nWilliam V. Hopf, State\u2019s Attorney, of Wheaton, (Ralph J. Gust, Jr., Assistant State\u2019s Attorney, of counsel,) for the People." }, "file_name": "0190-01", "first_page_order": 214, "last_page_order": 215 }