People v. Edwards

Defendant, Latasha D. Edwards, appeals from her convictions of armed violence, aggravated battery with a firearm and aggravated discharge of a firearm. Defendant maintains (a) that there was insufficient evidence for the trial judge to find her guilty of armed violence predicated on aggravated battery; (b) that her conviction of aggravated battery with a firearm and one of her convictions of aggravated discharge of a firearm should be vacated under the “one-act-one-crime” doctrine; (c) that the version of the statute under which she was sentenced (720 ILCS 5/33A—3(a) (West 1996)) was…