People v. Martinez

SUPPLEMENTAL OPINION

JUSTICE BURKE

delivered, the supplemental opinion of the court: This case is before us for a second time. Defendant Julio Martinez was convicted of three counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault and one count of armed robbery and was sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment on each of the three convictions for aggravated criminal sexual assault and 6 years’ imprisonment for armed robbery, to be served consecutively. Defendant appealed, challenging the jury selection and we held that the trial court failed to conduct the third step of the Batson analysis. Accordingly, we…