People v. Brown

Court properly dismissed Defendant's second-stage postconviction petition, after his conviction for unlawful use of a weapon by a felon. Allegations in petition, with supporting documentation, fail to make substantial showing of any constitutional deprivation to warrant third-stage proceeding. No ineffective assistance of counsel claim, as Defendant cannot show prejudice from his claims that his counsel failed to relay State's plea offer, and that counsel failed to inform him of sentence he faced if convicted. Defendant cannot show reasonable probability that he would have accept plea offer and that if he had, court would have accepted it.(PUCINSKI and LAVIN, concurring.)