Donald Otis Williams was convicted of first-degree murder in the 2010 Lake County murder of Janet Patrick. The trial court sentenced Williams to death after the jury recommended the death penalty by a 9-3 vote. In 2017, this Court affirmed Williams’s convictions but reversed his death sentence and ordered a new penalty phase. After being resentenced to death in 2023, Williams now appeals his death sentence and raises four issues.

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