People v. Wesley

Defendant was convicted, after jury trial, of 1st degree murder in shooting death of one person. Court properly entered 1st stage dismissal of his postconviction petition. No ineffective assistance of appellate counsel or due process violation in trial court admitting grand jury testimony of 2 witnesses and written and videotaped statements of one of those witnesses whose grand jury testimony was nearly identical to those statements. Both witnesses had no personal knowledge of the shooting but only of the Defendant's statement admitting to it. Although such evidence was not substantively admissible, it was cumulative to properly admitted evidence.(DELORT and HARRIS, concurring.)