Justice GARCIA delivered the opinion of the court.
The defendant appeals from the second-stage dismissal of his petition for relief under the Post-Conviction Hearing Act (725 ILCS 5/122-1 et seq. (West 2006)), following a second-degree murder conviction. The defendant acknowledges that no better result than a second-degree murder conviction was possible under the facts of his case. The postconviction petition challenges only the extended-term sentence he
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