Supreme Court of Illinois

In a conviction for attempted first degree murder, dismissal of a pro se postconviction petition is affirmed where: 1) in an appeal from the dismissal of the initial postconviction petition, defendant made allegations for the first time that the admonitions which he received when he pled guilty were inadequate; and 2) the issue of improper admonishments was waived because it was asserted for the first time on appeal and was not included in the original postconviction petition.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/18/2004
• Published 11/18/2004

Judges

• Justice FREEMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael J. Pelletier, Deputy Defender, and Letty S. DiGiulio, Assistant Appellate Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago, for appellant., Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (Linda D. Woloshin, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, and Renee Goldfarb and Michele Grimaldi Stein, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.