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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Colvin finds that the trial court properly convicted defendant of murder, aggravated battery, violating the Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act and other offenses. Any error the trial court committed in barring defendant from making a closing argument about the sentences his co-defendants avoided by pleading guilty was harmless in light of the overwhelming evidence of defendant's guilt. Defendant admitted to stabbing the victim and another witness testified that defendant told her he shot the victim. The trial court correctly overruled defendant's objection that the prosecutor personally attacked his counsel during closing arguments in saying that the defense's theory of the case insulted the victim's memory. However, the trial court incorrectly failed to merge some of the counts against defendant for sentencing. Affirmed in part.