People v. Phillips

PRESIDING JUSTICE BARRY

delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a jury trial, the defendant, David Phillips, was found guilty of aggravated kidnapping and one count of aggravated criminal sexual assault. He was sentenced to concurrent extended prison terms of 40 years for the aggravated criminal sexual assault and 25 years for the aggravated kidnapping. The defendant appeals. We affirm.

The evidence tended to establish that at approximately 10:30 p.m. on June 8, 1985, the victim’s mother and a friend, Harold Jackson, were out on the front porch of the mother’s home in North Pekin. The…