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PEOPLE v. WATSON

No. 96392.

825 N.E.2d 257 (2005)

214 Ill.2d 271

292 Ill.Dec. 1

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Vernon WATSON, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing Denied March 28, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin A. Burnette, Public Defender, Chicago (Emily Eisner, Assistant Public Defender, of counsel), for appellant.

Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (Linda D. Woloshin, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, and Renee G. Goldfarb, Peter Fischer, Veronica Calderon Malavia and Mary L. Boland, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Chief Justice McMORROW delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a bench trial, defendant, Vernon Watson, was found guilty of two counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault and one count of aggravated kidnapping. He was later sentenced as an habitual offender to natural life in prison without the possibility of parole. The question before us in this appeal is whether the DNA evidence admitted at defendant's trial should have been suppressed because defendant...

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