People v. Pearson This Opinion has been modified.

SECOND DIVISION

May 21, 2002

No. 1-00-2928

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS,

Plaintiff-Appellee,

v.

KENDRICK PEARSON,

Defendant-Appellant.)))))))))

Appeal from the

Circuit Court of

Cook County

No. 98 CR 30630

Honorable

Thomas M. Davy,

Judge Presiding.

Defendant appeals a bench trial verdict convicting him of robbery and aggravated battery and the 20-year and 5-year concurrent prison terms imposed. We affirm.

Beverly Ruiz, a 66-year-old woman, was unloading her groceries from her parked car in an alley behind her home about noon on October 12, 1998, when a man wearing a white T-shirt approached. The man…