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Appellate Court of Illinois· 1/31/2007

People v. Brooks

Citations

  • 867 N.E.2d 1072
  • 371 Ill. App. 3d 482
  • 311 Ill. Dec. 86
  • 2007 Ill. App. LEXIS 72

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  • stating that “the Postconviction Act provides a separate remedy, whose availability is not contingent upon exhaustion of another remedy”
  • “the Postconviction Act provides a separate remedy, whose availability is not contingent upon exhaustion of another remedy”
  • “The [Act] does not require a defendant to exhaust his direct appeal rights to obtain relief under the Act.”
  • the well-established principle that a defendant forfeits on collateral review any issues he could have brought on direct appeal does not apply where the defendant does not actually take a direct appeal

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Judges: Turner

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