People v. Gangestad

PRESIDING JUSTICE SEIDENFELD

delivered the opinion of the court:

In a jury trial, the defendant, Robert Gangestad, was convicted of murder and thereafter sentenced to a term of 40 years in prison. He appeals, contending that he was not proved guilty of accountability for the murder beyond a reasonable doubt, that his motion to suppress his statement was improperly denied, that numerous trial errors deprived him of a fair trial, that the statute (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 38, par. 9 — 1(b)(2)) under which he was convicted of killing a fellow county jail inmate, providing the possibility of a…