Appellate Court of Illinois

An order denying leave to file a successive post-conviction petition is affirmed where the defendant: 1) filed a successive post-conviction petition without seeking leave to file such a petition; and 2) failed to show why he could not have presented the arguments in his successive petition in his original petition.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/25/2008
• Published 03/27/2008

Judges

Court

• Appellate Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Billie D. Barber, Pontiac, for Billie D. Barber., Terry A. Mertel, Deputy Director, Rita Kennedy Mertel, State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, Ottawa, Stewart Umholtz, State's Attorney, Pekin, for the People.