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PEOPLE v. VELASCO

No. 1-16-1683.

127 N.E.3d 53 (2018)

2018 IL App (1st) 161683

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jose VELASCO, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, FIFTH DIVISION.

Opinion filed: June 15, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bluhm Legal Clinic of Northwestern Pritzker School of Law ( Megan G. Crane , Laura H. Nirider , and Steven A. Drizin , of counsel, and Courtney Cronin , Kathryn Hogg , and Marco Minichiello , law students), and Valorem Law Group ( Stuart Chanen , of counsel), both of Chicago, for appellant.

Kimberly M. Foxx , State's Attorney, of Chicago ( Alan J. Spellberg and Iris G. Ferosie , Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

OPINION

¶ 1 A jury convicted defendant, Jose Velasco, of first degree murder, and he was sentenced to 45 years' imprisonment. Defendant subsequently filed an amended postconviction petition, alleging actual innocence and ineffective assistance of trial counsel. The...

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