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PEOPLE v. ROBINSON

No. 4-10-1048.

974 N.E.2d 978 (2012)

363 Ill. Dec. 181

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Alfred D. ROBINSON, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied September 25, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Pelletier , State Appellate Defender, Springfield, Alan D. Goldberg , Deputy Defender, Christopher L. Gehrke (argued), Asst. Appellate Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago, for appellant.

William A. Yoder , McLean County State's Attorney, Bloomington ( Patrick Delfino , Director, Robert J. Biderman , Dep. Director, Denise M. Ambrose (argued), Staff Attorney, State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, of counsel), for the People.

OPINION

Justice STEIGMANN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion.

¶ 1 In this case, we are asked to determine whether defense counsel is ineffective when he rejects a defendant's directive that counsel serve essentially as merely the defendant's conduit during guilty-plea negotiations. We conclude that he is not, given that a criminal defendant's role in guilty-plea negotiations when he is represented by counsel is limited to accepting or...

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