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PEOPLE v. DE LA PAZ

No. 93208.

791 N.E.2d 489 (2003)

204 Ill.2d 426

274 Ill.Dec. 397

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Paul A. DE LA PAZ, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

May 8, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Pelletier, Deputy Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago, Alison J. Norwood, Streamwood, for appellant.

James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield, Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (William L. Browers, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, Renee G. Goldfarb, Linda Halperin, Alan J. Spellberg, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Justice FREEMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Petitioner, Paul De La Paz, is currently serving an extended-term sentence for an armed robbery conviction. He has exhausted his direct appeals and is now before this court on appeal from the dismissal of his petition for postconviction relief. He argues that he received ineffective assistance of counsel in the postconviction proceedings and also argues that his extended-term sentence should be reversed because the...

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