People v. Coleman

Defendant, Keith Coleman, was tried by a jury in the circuit court of Cook County and convicted of murder and two counts of armed robbery. He was sentenced to concurrent terms of 35 years’ imprisonment for murder and 15 years’ imprisonment for armed robbery. The appellate court affirmed defendant’s convictions and sentences. (223 Ill. App. 3d 975.) This court subsequently granted defendant’s petition for leave to appeal (134 Ill. 2d R. 315).

Defendant raised several issues in the appellate court and attempted to present them again in his brief before this court. However, the State’s motion to…