PEOPLE v. SMITH

No. 1-97-4415.

726 N.E.2d 776 (2000)

312 Ill. App.3d 219

244 Ill.Dec. 801

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Geraldine SMITH, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Sixth Division.

March 17, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Renee Goldfarb, Kenneth T. McCurry, Celeste Stewart Stack, State's Attorney Office of Cook County, Chicago, for Appellee.

Charles W. Hoffman, State Appellate Defender's Office, Chicago, for Appellant.


Justice BUCKLEY delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an appeal from the trial court's dismissal of defendant Geraldine Smith's pro se petition for postconviction relief and its subsequent denial of defendant's motion to vacate the dismissal. Defendant raises the following issues: (1) whether the trial court violated the Post-Conviction Hearing Act (725 ILCS 5/122-1 et seq. (West 1996)) when it dismissed defendant's pro se post-conviction...

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