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PEOPLE v. MATTHEWS

No. 46631.

60 Ill.2d 123 (1975)

324 N.E.2d 396

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. JAMES B. MATTHEWS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied March 24, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary H. Palm, of the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic, of Chicago (Maureen T. Thornton, Christine Luzzie, and Scott Berman (senior law students), of counsel), for appellant.

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Bernard Carey, State's Attorney, of Chicago (James B. Zagel, Assistant Attorney General, of Chicago, and Patrick T. Driscoll, Jr., and Barry Rand Elden, Assistant State's Attorneys, and Bruce H. Weitzman (law student), of counsel), for the People.

Judgment affirmed.

MR. JUSTICE GOLDENHERSH delivered the opinion of the court:

Petitioner, James B. Matthews, appealed from the judgment of the circuit court of Cook County denying his petition filed under the provisions of the Post-Conviction Hearing Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1971, ch. 38, par. 122-1 et seq.). The appellate court affirmed (17 Ill.App.3d 395), and we allowed petitioner's petition for leave to appeal...

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