PEOPLE v. HEATON

No. 5-92-0573.

640 N.E.2d 630 (1994)

266 Ill. App.3d 469

203 Ill.Dec. 710

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Stuart HEATON, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District.

September 13, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Byman, S. Michelle Malinowski, Jenner & Block, Chicago, for appellant.

Rod Irvin, State's Atty., Vandalia, Norbert J. Goetten, Director, Stephen E. Norris, Deputy Director, Rebecca Sanders, Staff Atty., Office of the State's Attys. Appellate Prosecutor, Mt. Vernon, for appellee.


Justice WELCH delivered the opinion of the court:

A jury convicted defendant, Stuart Heaton, of murder in the stabbing death of Krystal Naab. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. Defendant raises four issues for our review: (1) whether the trial court erred in admitting DNA evidence implicating defendant in the crime; (2) whether the circuit court erred in allowing autopsy photographs of the victim to go to the jury room; (3) whether the prosecutor, in his opening...

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