People v. Gorgis

THIRD DIVISION

March 19, 2003

No. 1- 00-3759

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, ) Appeal from the) Circuit Court of

Plaintiff-Appellee, ) Cook County.)

v. ))

NINOS GORGIS, ) Honorable) Joseph Urso and) Thomas P. Fecarotta, Jr.,

Defendant-Appellant. ) Judges Presiding.)

PRESIDING JUSTICE SOUTH delivered the opinion of the court:

This appeal arises from defendant's convictions for first degree murder and aggravated discharge of a firearm following a simultaneous, severed jury trial with codefendants Bretton Holman and Raul Negrete, who were both tried to the bench. Codefendant Holman was acquitted,…