Supreme Court of Illinois

In the matter of a pro se petition brought under the Post-Conviction Hearing Act, summary dismissal is affirmed over objections arising from the fact that the order affirming the underlying convictions was not served on the defendant within 10 days of its entry, as required by the Act, where failure to follow the specified procedure did not injure a right the procedure was designed to protect.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/20/2005
• Published 10/20/2005

Judges

• Justice GARMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (Linda D. Woloshin, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, Renee G. Goldfarb, Michele Grimaldi Stein, Alan J. Spellberg, Owen D. Kalt, Annette Collins, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael J. Pelletier, Deputy Defender, Jennifer Bonjean, Assistant Appellate Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago, for appellee and cross-appellant.