PEOPLE v. CLARKE

No. 1-07-0688.

915 N.E.2d 1 (2009)

391 Ill. App.3d 596

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. William CLARKE, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Third Division.

May 27, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anita Alvarez, State's Atty. of Cook County (Assistant State's Attorney's James E. Fitzgerald, Miles J. Keleher and Douglas P. Harvath, of counsel), Chicago, IL, for Appellant.

Kathleen T. Zellner & Associates (Douglas H. Johnson and Nicholas M. Curran, of counsel), Oakbrook, IL, for Appellee.


Justice QUINN delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a jury trial, defendant was convicted of the first degree murder of Victor Pineda and sentenced to 65 years in prison. On appeal, defendant contends that: (1) the evidence was insufficient to prove him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt where neither defendant's confession nor the eyewitness's pretrial identification of defendant was credible; (2) trial counsel was...

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