People v. Williams

Defendant Jerome Williams was convicted of three counts of aggravated battery and one count of armed violence. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison on the armed violence conviction, the term to run consecutively with an unrelated three-year conviction for possession of a controlled substance and concurrently with an unrelated 20-year murder conviction.

Defendant’s appeal does not involve the propriety of the aggravated battery and armed violence convictions per se but asks this court to vacate defendant’s conviction because he did not waive representation by a “conflict-free” attorney, who…