People v. Perry

JUSTICE EGAN *

delivered the opinion of the court:

A jury convicted the defendant, Arlo Perry, of the murder of Tyrone Crosby, and he was sentenced to 34 years’ imprisonment. The defendant seeks a new trial because of alleged incompetency of counsel and various trial errors. No issue is made of the sufficiency of the evidence.

Bernard Fisher was a friend of the deceased, Tyrone Crosby, and had known the defendant, whom he called Otto, from seeing him in the neighborhood “just about every day ” for more than 10 years. On November 22, 1986, at about 6:30 p.m., Fisher left Crosby’s apartment at…