PEOPLE v. WILLIAMS

No. 90137.

807 N.E.2d 448 (2004)

209 Ill.2d 227

282 Ill.Dec. 824

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

Supreme Court of Illinois.

March 18, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles M. Schiedel, Deputy Defender, and Kathryn Saltmarsh, Assistant Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Springfield, for appellant.

James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Jeffrey J. Tomczak, State's Attorney, Joliet (Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General, and William L. Browers and Colleen M. Griffin, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for the People.


Justice GARMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Petitioner, Elton Williams, was convicted following a jury trial of the first degree murder of police officer Timothy Simenson and sentenced to death. This court affirmed his conviction and sentence on direct appeal. People v. Williams, 181 Ill.2d 297, 229 Ill.Dec. 898, 692 N.E.2d 1109 (1998). After...

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