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PEOPLE v. EDWARDS

No. 87930.

757 N.E.2d 442 (2001)

197 Ill.2d 239

258 Ill.Dec. 753

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Donald EDWARDS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

September 20, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel D. Yuhas, Deputy Defender, Robert Neal Markfield, Assistant Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Springfield, for Appellant.

James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield, John C. Piland, State's Attorney, Urbana (Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General, William L. Browers and Lisa A. Smith, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for the People.

Justice McMORROW delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant, Donald Edwards, filed a pro se post-conviction petition in the circuit court of Champaign County pursuant to the Post-Conviction Hearing Act (725 ILCS 5/122-1 et seq. (West 1998)) in which he alleged that, following the entry of his guilty plea, his court-appointed attorney refused his request to "file an appeal" and became "totally unavailable in regard to the case." The circuit court...

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