People v. Coleman

PRESIDING JUSTICE O’HARA FROSSARD

delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a bench trial defendant, Stanley Coleman, was convicted of the first degree murder of his 11-month-old son, T.S. The trial court also found that under the applicable statutory guidelines it could only sentence defendant to either a term of natural life imprisonment without parole or death. The court found defendant ineligible for the death penalty and sentenced him to a term of natural life imprisonment. On appeal, defendant argues that the State’s evidence was insufficient to prove him guilty of first degree murder…