CLARKE, Justice.
William Howard Putnam was convicted of the murder of William Gerald Hodges on July 10, 1980. Putnam was sentenced to life imprisonment and brings this appeal.
Early on the morning of July 10, 1980, an eyewitness saw the shooting death of a man and a woman at a rest stop on Interstate Highway 75 in Cook County. The perpetrator drove off heading north on the interstate in a black tractor with a flatbed yellow trailer. The eyewitness reported...
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