On Dec. 3, 2020, retired Lt. Williams, 65, was shot and killed as he was targeted for his red Jeep.
Each of the three defendants has been assigned his own separate jury - a move allowing each of them to present difference defenses without the need for three independent trials.
"There's going to be different evidence against each one of those three. Sometimes it's prejudicial against one, but not the other two, or vice versa," said CBS 2 Legal Analyst Irv Miller."So you have to make sure that the jury that's doing the individual defendant only hears the evidence that applies to that particular defendant."
But a courtroom packed with three different juries isn't common here. Miller told us just how rare it is. "I don't think we've ever had a triple jury here in Cook County, or even the State of Illinois," Miller said."We've had a lot of double juries. We've had double juries plus a third defendant, his case being decided by the judge – a bench trial. But that's the closest we've ever come to a triple jury."
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