Appellate Court of Illinois May 21, 2002, 1-00-2928 (People v. Pearson)

JUSTICE CAHILL

delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant appeals a bench trial verdict convicting him of robbery and aggravated battery and the 20-year and 5-year concurrent prison terms imposed. We affirm.

Beverly Ruiz, a 66-year-old woman, was unloading her groceries from her parked car in an alley behind her home about noon on October 12, 1998, when a man wearing a white T-shirt approached.