People v. White

Following a bench trial where defendant Corian White was tried with codefendants Tracy and Jerry Chambers, defendant was convicted of armed robbery and aggravated unlawful restraint and was sentenced to six years in the Illinois Department of Corrections. On appeal, defendant contends that he was denied his sixth amendment right to the effective assistance of trial counsel due to an actual conflict of interest which resulted from counsel’s joint representation of defendant and codefendant Tracy Chambers. He also contends that the compulsory extraction and inclusion of his DNA in…