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PEOPLE v. FORD

No. 1-04-1939.

857 N.E.2d 900 (2006)

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. James FORD, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, First Division.

Rehearing Denied November 29, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Pelletier, Deputy Defender, and Manuel S. Serritos, Assistant Appellate Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago, for Appellant.

Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney of Cook County, Chicago (James F. Fitzgerald, Michele Grimaldi Stein and Miles J. Keleher, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for Appellee.

Justice CAHILL delivered the opinion of the court:

We review the denial of a petition for postconviction relief in an appeal with a few expected and a few unexpected arguments. Expected is a claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel. Unexpected is an admission by distinguished trial counsel that he was, in fact, ineffective. Unexpected as well is a group of lawyers who testified that trial counsel was suffering from emotional fatigue as a result of an earlier...

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