Illinois Supreme Court
Criminal Court
Postconviction Petitions
Petitioner failed to carry his burden to make substantial showing of a claim of actual innocence. Thus, court properly dismissed his successive postconviction petition at second stage. Proposed testimony would merely add to evidence jury heard at Petitioner's trial, and is not so conclusive in charaacter as would probably change result on retrial, either by itself or in conjunction with recantation of another witness.(FREEMAN, THOMAS, KILBRIDE, KARMEIER, BURKE, and THEIS, concurring.)