Supreme Court of Illinois

In a conviction for first degree murder of a police officer where the death penalty was imposed, dismissal of pro se postconviction petition is affirmed over multiple claims of error where these were the only issues remaining due to the fact that, while the appeal was pending, the death sentence previously imposed was commuted by the then-Governor to a life term.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/18/2004
• Published 03/18/2004

Judges

• Justice GARMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Charles M. Schiedel, Deputy Defender, and Kathryn Saltmarsh, Assistant Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Springfield, for appellant., James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Jeffrey J. Tomczak, State's Attorney, Joliet (Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General, and William L. Browers and Colleen M. Griffin, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for the People.