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- Title: People v. Lee
- Author : Supreme Court of Illinois
- Release Date : January 13, 1981
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 60 KB
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The defendant's claim that he would be prejudiced by joint trial with his co-defendants was not sufficiently substantiated to require severance. Because the trial judge was not specifically told how the defenses were antagonistic, the defendants' joint trial here was proper. Defendants Jerome Trosclair, Danny Lee, and two others were charged in the circuit court of Cook County with murder for the execution-style slaying of Reginald Bell, Sr., attempted murder for a similar attack upon Darryle Sanders, and armed robbery and burglary. The evidence developed at trial by the testimony of witnesses other than Trosclair's co-defendants disclosed that the four defendants invaded a party in an apartment, in search of a man called Junior, after an earlier request to search the apartment had been rebuffed by the occupants. Once inside the apartment, Trosclair produced a gun and ordered some of the occupants — Stanley Watson, Mary Ann Watson and Dewana Beard — to lie on the floor near Darryle Sanders, who was sleeping. Others in the apartment scurried out the back door or hid in a pantry. Bell got out of the apartment but then returned for his son. After leading the boy to safety, Bell confronted the defendants and asked them to take whatever they wanted but not to hurt anyone. Bell was ordered to join the four lying on the living room floor.
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