People v. Nieto

PRESIDING JUSTICE SPITZ

delivered the opinion of the court:

On August 28, 1986, an indictment was filed charging Sharon Darlene Nieto with both the knowing and the intentional shooting death of Johnny Lee Willis which occurred on April 6, 1977, nine years earlier. Lee Albert Vine was also indicted with Nieto. Defendant Vine filed a motion for severance alleging the likelihood that he and Nieto would assert antagonistic defenses. Vine pleaded guilty to one count of murder on December 11, 1986, and was immediately sentenced to 24 years’ imprisonment in the Department of Corrections.

On December…