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PEOPLE v. WILLIAMS

Nos. 1-97-4559, 1-98-1767, 1-98-1768 and 1-98-2420.

732 N.E.2d 767 (2000)

315 Ill. App.3d 22

247 Ill.Dec. 712

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Rasheed WILLIAMS, Jonathan Beard, Nazareth Beard, and Lewis Taylor, Defendants-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, First Division.

Rehearing Denied July 25, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donna Hickstein-Foley, Chicago, for Appellant Rasheed Williams.

James Geis, Chicago, for Appellant Jonathan Beard.

Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago (Michael J. Pelletier, Manuel S. Serritos, of counsel), for Appellant Nazareth Beard.

Public Defender of Cook County, Chicago (Rita A. Fry, Hugh Stevens, of counsel), for Appellant Lewis Taylor.

State's Attorney of County of Cook, Chicago (Richard A. Devine, Renee Goldfarb, Marcel Benavides, Katherine Blakely Cox, James Fitzgerald, Jon J. Walters, of counsel), for Appellee.

Justice GALLAGHER delivered the opinion of the court:

Jonathan Beard, Nazareth Beard, Lewis Taylor and Rasheed Williams were charged with first degree murder and home invasion involving Sammie Britton (decedent) arising from an incident on December 27, 1994. The court granted defendants' motions to sever their trials and Jonathan, Nazareth and Taylor were tried simultaneously by three separate juries. Williams was tried in a separate proceeding. Nazareth and Jonathan...

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