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PEOPLE v. FLOWERS

No. 94721.

802 N.E.2d 1174 (2003)

208 Ill.2d 291

280 Ill.Dec. 653

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellant, v. Eleanor FLOWERS, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

As Modified Upon Denial of Rehearing January 26, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Ryan and Lisa Madigan, Attorneys General, Springfield, and Jeff Tomczak, State's Attorney, Joliet (Gary Feinerman, Solicitor General, Lisa Anne Hoffman, Mary Beth Burns and Linda D. Woloshin, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, and Norbert J. Goetten, John X. Breslin and Gary F. Gnidovec, of the Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, Ottawa, of counsel), for the People.

Robert Agostinelli, Deputy Defender, and Verlin R. Meinz, Assistant Deputy Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, Ottawa, for appellee.

Justice RARICK delivered the opinion of the court:

The issue in this case is whether a criminal defendant who has pleaded guilty may challenge the validity of her sentence on appeal where she did not file the postjudgment motion required by Supreme Court Rule 604 (145 Ill.2d R. 604) until after the circuit court's subject matter jurisdiction had expired. For the reasons that follow, we hold that she may not.

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