PEOPLE v. WHIRL

Nos. 1-11-1483, 1-14-0801.

39 N.E.3d 114 (2015)

395 Ill. Dec. 647

2015 IL App (1st) 111483

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Shawn WHIRL, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Third Division.

August 12, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

People's Law Office ( G. Flint Taylor, Jr. , and Ben H. Elson , of counsel) and Exoneration Project ( Jon Loevy , Russell Ainsworth , Tara Thompson , and David B. Owens , of counsel), Chicago, for appellant.

Stuart A. Nudelman , Andrew N. Levine , and Brian J. Stefanich , Special State's Attorneys, Chicago, for the People.


OPINION

¶ 1 Following the denial of a motion to suppress his confession, petitioner-appellant Shawn Whirl pled guilty to a murder and armed robbery committed on April 18, 1990, and was sentenced to 60 years in prison. Whirl's motion for leave to file a successive postconviction...

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