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PEOPLE v. BENFORD

No. 1-95-4312.

692 N.E.2d 1285 (1998)

295 Ill. App.3d 695

230 Ill.Dec. 119

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Willette BENFORD, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, First Division.

Rehearing Denied April 21, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago (Michael J. Pelletier, Ann C. McCallister, of counsel), for Defendant-Appellant.

Cook County State's Attorney, Chicago (Richard A. Devine, Renee Goldfarb, Veronica X. Calderon, Beth Pfeiffer, of counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Justice GALLAGHER delivered the opinion of the court:

A jury convicted defendant, Willette Benford, of first degree murder for the death of Patricia Phillips. The trial court sentenced defendant to 50 years in prison. Defendant next brought this timely appeal, asserting that: (1) she was denied a fair trial by the trial court's admission of an evidentiary photograph of the decedent's nude body, where it depicted a large...

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