Illinois Appellate Court
Criminal Court
Postconviction Petitions
(Modified upon denial of rehearing 7/30/14.) Defendant was convicted, after bench trial, of first-degree murder for 1995 and, after jury trial, for another first-degree murder. Court did not err in denying Defendant leave to file successive postconviction petition. Although court erred in considering results of evidentiary hearing in postconviction proceeding on a separate murder conviction to deny Defendant leave to file successive petition in this case, error was not reversible, as Defendant could not set forth a colorable claim of actual innocence, and affidavits of State's witnesses were not "newly discovered" evidence.(PUCINSKI and MASON, concurring.)