PEOPLE v. KING

(Docket No. 123926).

161 N.E.3d 143 (2020)

2020 IL 123926

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellant, v. Shadwick R. KING, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed January 24, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kwame Raoul , Attorney General, of Springfield ( Jane Elinor Notz , Solicitor General, and Michael M. Glick and Katherine M. Doersch , Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, of counsel), for the People.

Matthew R. Carter , Elizabeth S. Deshaies , and Kate DeBoer , of Winston & Strawn LLP, and Adam R. Vaught , of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, both of Chicago, for appellee.

Karl Leonard and Lindsay Hagy , of University of Chicago Law School, of Chicago, for amici curiae the Exoneration Project et al.


OPINION

¶ 1 Defendant, Shadwick R. King, was charged with the first degree murder (720 ILCS 5/9-1(a)(1) (West 2014)) of his wife, Kathleen King. Following a jury trial in the circuit court of Kane County, defendant was convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison....

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