People v. Williams

PRESIDING JUSTICE RAKOWSKI

delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a jury trial, defendant Leslie Williams was found guilty of murder and armed robbery. He was sentenced to a term of 40 years for murder and seven years for armed robbery, the sentences to run concurrently. Codefendant Robert Weatherly was tried simultaneously in a bench trial and found not guilty. The issues raised on appeal are: (1) whether defendant was denied a fair trial when the State showed the life and death witness murder scene photographs of his sister which elicited an emotional reaction in the presence of the…