People v. Gill

A jury convicted defendant, Glenn Gill, of first degree murder and armed violence predicated on first degree murder for the stabbing death of John Melvin Cooper (hereafter the deceased). The trial court sentenced defendant on both convictions to concurrent terms of 25 years’ imprisonment.

On appeal defendant raises the following contentions:(1) he was deprived of due process safeguards because the initial indictment process was flawed;(2) his purported confession was not corroborated by other evidence;(3) his testimony stating the stabbing was accidental was not improbable, uncorroborated or…