Rock Island County Circuit Judge F. Michael Meersman watches the jury leave sthe courtroom after they came back with a guilty verdict in the second murder trial against Nicholas Sheley at the Whiteside County Courthouse in Morrison, Ill. The jury took less than three hours Tuesday to convict Sheley for the June 2008 killing of 93-year-old Russell Reed in his Sterling, Ill., home. Reed is one of eight people Sheley was accused of killing in 2008 during a spree of violence in Illinois and Missouri. (AP Photo/Sauk Valley Media, Alex T. Pashcal, Pool)
