Manion, Circuit Judge.
Spencer Riley was acquitted of first-degree murder by an Illinois jury, but he later was convicted at a bench trial of being an "armed habitual criminal." The state had charged these crimes together but, with defense counsel's acquiescence, obtained a severance to proceed separately with the armed habitual criminal count....
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