PEOPLE v. JONES

No. 95576.

809 N.E.2d 1233 (2004)

211 Ill.2d 140

284 Ill.Dec. 287

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Lee JONES, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

As Modified Upon Denial of Rehearing May 24, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James K. Leven, Chicago, for appellant.

Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (Linda D. Woloshin, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, and Renee Goldfarb, William D. Carroll and Manny Magence, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.


Justice RARICK delivered the opinion of the court:

This case presents the question of whether waiver applies to issues raised for the first time on appeal from the dismissal, at the first stage of proceedings, of a petition filed under the Post-Conviction Hearing Act (725 ILCS 5/122-1 et seq. (West 1998)). Following simultaneous but severed trials in the circuit court of Cook County, defendant, Lee Jones, and a codefendant not involved in this appeal, Leroy...

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