People v. Gray

PRESIDING JUSTICE SCARIANO

delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant Terry Gray was convicted by a jury of murder and acquitted of aggravated criminal sexual assault; he appeals the murder conviction upon numerous grounds.

Detective Victor Breska testified that on March 25, 1986, he was riding in an unmarked police car when, at about 8:45 p.m., someone flagged him down at 13th and Troy Streets in Chicago, and upon pulling over, he was told that a body had been discovered behind a building in a nearby alley. Breska walked into the alley and saw a body lying in the basement stairwell of an…