Presiding Justice BURKE delivered the opinion of the court:
Defendant James Barksdale appeals from an order of the circuit court summarily dismissing his second postconviction petition without an evidentiary hearing. Following a jury trial, defendant was convicted in 1972 of rape, deviate sexual assault, and aggravated kidnaping, and we affirmed his convictions and sentences on direct appeal. People v. Barksdale,
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