State v. Blackshire

Hill, J.:

Anthony C. Blackshire appeals his convictions for two counts of rape and five counts of aggravated indecent liberties with *494a child. Blackshire is currently serving a 325-month sentence in the custody of the Secretary of Corrections. He argues that the trial court should not have held the hearing to determine the voluntariness of his confessions simultaneously with his trial, that the sentencing court adopted a procedure that prevented it from considering his mitigating evidence, that his sentence is unconstitutionally excessive, and that the trial court erroneously instructed the…