People v. Bushey

Defendant, Richard D. Bushey, was convicted of aggravated battery (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 38, par. 12 — 4(b)(6)) after a jury trial in the circuit court of Stephenson County and was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. On appeal, Bushey contends that: (1) he is entitled to a new trial because the evidence adduced at the post-trial hearing established that he was not willfully absent from his trial, and (2) defense counsel did not submit the State’s case to a meaningful adversarial testing, depriving him of the effective assistance of counsel. We affirm.

On April 14, 1986, defendant was…