Illinois Supreme Court· 5/18/2000

People v. Johnson

Citations

730 N.E.2d 1107
191 Ill. 2d 257
246 Ill. Dec. 642
2000 Ill. LEXIS 653

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“A post-conviction proceeding is not part of the criminal process. Rather, it is a collateral attack on the judgment of conviction and is civil in nature.”
“[I]t would be a ‘strange rule,’ indeed to impose upon a defendant the burden of proving unfitness to proceed with a post-conviction petition where the very disability the defendant seeks to prove may very well render the defendant incapable of sustaining the burden of proof”
postconviction proceedings are civil in nature

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