Supreme Court of Illinois

In a postconviction petition asserting claims attacking the effectiveness of trial counsel, dismissal of the petition is affirmed where the circuit court had no duty to make an inquiry into whether postconviction counsel had a conflict of interest in challenging trial counsel's ineffectiveness under circumstances in which both worked for the same office, because defendant had not presented factual evidence showing a conflict.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/01/2005
• Published 12/15/2005

Judges

• Justice FITZGERALD delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert Agostinelli, Deputy Defender, and Peter A. Carusona and Jay Wiegman, Assistant Defenders, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, Ottawa, for appellant., Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Joseph E. Birkett, State's Attorney, Wheaton (Gary Feinerman, Solicitor General, and Linda D. Woloshin and Assata N. Peterson, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for the People.