People v. Harrison

At hearing, Defendant's postconviction counsel informed court that Defendant wished to proceed pro se on his petition, and Defendant confirmed that he wanted to represent himself on his claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel because his trial attorney was postconviction counsel's boss. Court announced it would allow Defendant to proceed pro se. Faretta-type admonishments need not be given every time a postconviction petitioner chooses to represent himself in postconviction proceedings. Defendant had already been convicted and sentenced, and thus knew all that Rule 401(a) admonishments would have told him.(HOLDRIDGE and LYTTON, concurring.)