Supreme Court of Illinois

Denial of a second postconviction petition under the Post-Conviction Hearing Act is affirmed where defendant claimed actual innocence based on newly discovered recanted testimony of an eyewitness, but he failed to substantiate his claim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/23/2004
• Published 09/23/2004

Judges

• Justice RARICK delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• J. Samuel Tenenbaum, Matthew J. O'Hara, Shobha L. Mahadev and John L. Hayes, of Sachnoff & Weaver, Ltd., and Thomas F. Geraghty, Chicago, for appellant., Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (Renee Goldfarb and Marie Quinlivan Czech, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.