Precision Alliance Group, the defendant here, is an agricultural supply business dealing in soybean seeds, and, among its eight holding companies, has a facility in Nashville, where the events in this Washington County lawsuit occurred. The three plaintiffs here filed a claim for the tort of retaliatory discharge in the circuit court of Washington County.
A McLean County jury convicted this defendant in 2010 for delivering cocaine in Bloomington, and he was sentenced to 16 years of imprisonment as a Class X offender based on his prior felony convictions.
A 1998 shooting on the streets of the south side of Chicago resulted in the death of a 14-year-old for which this defendant was convicted by a Cook County jury of first degree murder and aggravated firearm discharge on an accountability theory. The defendants police-station statement indicated that he drove the vehicle from which the shooters, armed with guns, jumped out. On direct review, the appellate court affirmed.