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PEOPLE v. STEPHENS

Docket No. 1-11-0296.

980 N.E.2d 654 (2012)

2012 IL App (1st) 110296

366 Ill. Dec. 561

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Nathaniel STEPHENS, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Sixth Division.

October 26, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Pelletier , Alan D. Goldberg , and Jessica D. Pamon , all of State Appellate Defender's Office, of Chicago, for appellant.

Anita M. Alvarez , State's Attorney, of Chicago ( Alan J. Spellberg , John E. Nowak , and Clare Wesolik Connolly , Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

OPINION

Justice R. GORDON delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion.

¶ 1 After a bench trial, defendant, 19-year-old Nathaniel Stephens, was convicted of the first degree murder and aggravated battery of four-month-old Destiny Nelson (the victim). Each offense occurred on a different date. Defendant admitted in a videotaped confession to the first degree murder by hitting the victim's head into a door frame three times and punching the victim...

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