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PEOPLE v. DOMAGALA

No. 113688.

987 N.E.2d 767 (2013)

2013 IL 113688

370 Ill. Dec. 1

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Albert DOMAGALA, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

April 18, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Pelletier , State Appellate Defender, Alan D. Goldberg , Deputy Defender, Shawn M. O'Toole , Assistant Appellate Defender, Office of State Appellate Defender, Chicago, for appellant.

Lisa Madigan , Attorney General, Springfield, Anita Alvarez , State's Attorney, Chicago ( Alan J. Spellberg , Michelle Katz , Hareena Meghani-Wakely , Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

OPINION

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

The petitioner, Albert Domagala, was convicted of first degree murder. He subsequently filed a postconviction petition in which he alleged that his trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance when he failed to conduct a diligent investigation to discover that a superseding, intervening cause, i.e., gross negligence of treating medical staff, and not petitioner's conduct, caused...

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