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PEOPLE v. BAKER

No. 55429.

92 Ill.2d 85 (1982)

440 N.E.2d 856

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. JAMES EDWARD BAKER, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed September 17, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tyrone C. Fahner, Attorney General, of Springfield (Herbert Lee Caplan, Melbourne A. Noel, Jr., Ronald Lee Bell, and Michael B. Weinstein, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, of counsel), for the People.

Daniel D. Yuhas, Deputy Defender, and Janet Sinder, Assistant Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, of Springfield, for appellee.

Appellate court reversed; circuit court affirmed.

JUSTICE UNDERWOOD delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, James Baker, waived counsel and entered a plea of guilty on October 8, 1975, in the circuit court of Clark County to an information charging him with murder. He was sentenced to an indeterminate term of 30 years to life imprisonment. Four years later, he filed a pro se petition for relief under the Post-Conviction Hearing Act (Ill. Rev...

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