PEOPLE v. WILLIAMS

No. 85453.

739 N.E.2d 455 (2000)

193 Ill.2d 306

250 Ill.Dec. 692

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Jacqueline Annette WILLIAMS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing Denied November 27, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles M. Schiedel, Deputy Defender, and Allen H. Andrews, Assistant Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, for appellant.

James E. Ryan, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Joel Birkett, State's Attorney, of Wheaton (Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General, and William L. Browers and Jay Paul Hoffmann, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, of counsel), for the People.


Justice McMORROW delivered the opinion of the court:

On November 16, 1995, Debra Evans was fatally shot and stabbed in the Addison apartment where she lived with James Edwards and her children, Samantha, Joshua, and Jordan. Debra was nine months pregnant, and the baby she was carrying, Elijah Evans, was cut from her womb. Samantha was killed in the apartment with her mother. Joshua and Elijah were taken from the apartment, and Jordan was left alone in the apartment...

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