Supreme Court of Illinois

In a conviction for first degree murder, appeal seeking a remand so that defendant could receive the admonishments of the new rule and have an opportunity to file a postsentencing motion is denied where the defendant was not entitled to retroactive application of a rule revision which merely provided for admonitions on how to preserve issues, rather than on how to perfect appeals.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/16/2004
• Published 12/16/2004

Judges

• Justice GARMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert J. Agostinelli, Deputy Defender, and Jeremy B. Harris, Assistant Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, Ottawa, for appellant., Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Stewart Umholtz, State's Attorney, Pekin (Gary Feinerman, Solicitor General, and Linda D. Woloshin and Jonathan J. Silbermann, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for the People., James K. Leven, Chicago, amicus curiae pro se.