PEOPLE v. BROWN

Docket No. 121681.

2017 IL 121681

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. ANTHONY S. BROWN, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Filed November 30, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Pelletier , State Appellate Defender, Thomas A. Lilien , Deputy Defender, and Ann Fick , Assistant Appellate Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, of Elgin, for appellant.

Lisa Madigan , Attorney General, of Springfield ( David L. Franklin , Solicitor General, and Michael M. Glick and Michael L. Cebula , Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, of counsel), for the People.

Chief Justice Karmeier and Justices Freeman, Thomas, Garman, Burke, and Theis concurred in the judgment and opinion.


OPINION

¶ 1 In this appeal, we address a disagreement in the appellate court on the proper standard for reviewing a guilty-plea defendant's challenge to his plea counsel's performance raised in a petition seeking relief under the Post-Conviction Hearing Act (725 ILCS...

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