People v. Lindsey

Defendant Lloyd Lindsey (hereinafter “Lindsey”) was found guilty of four counts of murder, one count of rape, one count of arson and one count of aggravated battery before one of two juries sitting simultaneously in the same courtroom. Co-defendants Willie Robinson (hereinafter “Robinson”) and Eugene Ford (hereinafter “Ford”), whose trials were severed from Lindsey’s, were acquitted of similar charges by the second jury. The charges arose from the investigation of a tragic fire which swept through a residence in which four children died, three sisters and a brother, Caroline, age 17,…