PEOPLE v. GHOLSTON

No. 1-99-2845.

772 N.E.2d 880 (2002)

332 Ill. App.3d 179

265 Ill.Dec. 509

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Respondent-Appellee, v. Danny GHOLSTON, Petitioner-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fourth Division.

June 27, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Pelletier, Deputy Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago (Alan D. Goldberg, of counsel), for Appellant.

Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (Renee Goldfarb and Alan J. Spellberg, of counsel), for Appellee.


Justice HARTMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Petitioner, Danny Gholston, appeals from the dismissal of his post-conviction petition. Petitioner was one of nine men who attacked a 15 year-old-girl and her two male friends on an elevated train platform as they waited for a train on December 27, 1980. Following a jury trial, petitioner was convicted in 1981, of rape, deviate sexual assault, indecent liberties with a child, and aggravated battery against the girl...

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