State v. Blair

Wolff, Presiding Judge.

Jeffrey Blair was convicted of murder and abuse of a corpse, for which he was sentenced to consecutive terms of imprisonment of fifteen years to life and three to five years, respectively. Blair asserts eleven assignments of error on appeal, most of which involve evidentiary questions, including the novel issue of the admissibility of DNA testing.

We affirm.

At approximately 2:30 a.m. on November 12, 1988, Mike Pestke and Bill McConnell accompanied Blair to the Cedar Pub in Urbana. Both Pestke and McConnell testified that they went to the bar after it had closed in order…