to hide it from his mother and then went back to the car and rode around with the defendant and Bailey for a few hours. The next day (Monday), Cavalier heard about the murder and on Tuesday, he called his sister and asked her to bring her car to his house. He testified that he asked her to do him a big favor by taking the gun. She handed him the keys and went inside the house, and he hid the gun in the trunk of her car. He testified that he did not tell her what he put in her trunk.
The following Friday, Cavalier received a call that police officers were at his house. He went home and, under questioning, told the officers where he put thegun. The officers took him to the police station where, after being advised of his rights, he gave a statement. The police arrested him for being a principal to the murder and the armed robbery, as well as for having a gun with an obliterated serial number. He pleaded guilty to the weapons charge and *1244 an unrelated aggravated assault charge pursuant to an agreement and was sentenced to two years probation. The accessory to murder charge was dropped.
On cross-examination, Cavalier stated that he was originally arrested for first degree murder but then charged with being an accessory to murder. He conceded that he knew that he was looking at a life sentence or the death penalty for the murder charge and that his sentence as an accessory