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Hundley v. State

The defendant failed to preserve his ineffective assistance of counsel claims for appellate review.

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James William Hundley, Jr. was tried by a Cook County jury and convicted of murder and unlawful possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, both in connection with the fatal shooting of Ida Golson. Hundley appeals, contending that he was denied the effective assistance of counsel. Upon our review of the record and briefs, we see no error, and we affirm.1

1. Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, the evidence shows that Hundley and Golson had a romantic relationship and lived together in a house with Curtis Moore. Early on the morning of October 23, 2008, after the three had been drinking heavily and Moore had gone to sleep in his bedroom, Moore heard a “bang” and found Golson lying on the floor in the living room. Hundley told Moore to “get out” and had something black in his hand. After Moore left the house, he heard another shot, went back into the house, and this time saw Hundley also lying on the floor. When police officers arrived, they found Hundley bleeding from a gunshot wound to his head and kneeling beside Golson, who had died from a gunshot wound to her chest. Hundley was yelling and uncooperative, asking officers to “please kill him.” He told them that his gun was on the floor. The gun was found about three feet from Golson’s body, and it later was determined to be the murder weapon and to have been fired from a distance of only two inches from her chest. While being transported in an ambulance, Hundley said that he was a failure, that he could not do anything right, that he had “done her and couldn’t even do himself,” and that “he f’d up.” Hundley’s ex-wife testified about two previous occasions on which Hundley attacked her while he was under the influence of alcohol, once when he intentionally hit her with his car, and another when he punched her in the chest multiple times, sending her to the hospital.

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