PEOPLE v. WHITFIELD

No. 98136.

840 N.E.2d 658 (2005)

217 Ill.2d 177

298 Ill.Dec. 545

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Ronald WHITFIELD, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

As Modified On Denial Of Rehearing December 20, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Pelletier, Deputy Defender, Deborah Israel, Assistant Appellate Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago, for appellant.

Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (Linda D. Woloshin, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, and Renee G. Goldfarb, Michele Grimaldi Stein, James D. Ridgway, James E. Fitzgerald, Alan J. Spellberg and Tasha-Marie Kelly, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.


Justice McMORROW delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, Ronald Whitfield, appeals the dismissal of his postconviction petition. He contends that his constitutional rights were substantially violated because he entered a plea of guilty in exchange for a specific sentence, but, with the addition of a statutorily required term of mandatory supervised release (MSR), about which the trial court never admonished him,...

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