People v. Hughes

Defendant was convicted, after jury trial, of first degree murder and attempted armed robbery and sentenced to 55 years. Court properly denied Defendant's pro se postconviction petition alleging ineffective assistance of trial counsel. The only supporting document is Defendant's own affidavit stating that ASA violated his Miranda rights, which is not enough to support gist of a meritorious constitutional claim that defense counsel was ineffective in not objecting to ASA's testimony as to interview with Defendant. Defendant failed to overcome presumption, created by his postconviction counsel's filing of 651(c) certificate, that Defendant received effective assistance of postconviction counsel.(McBRIDE and REYES, concurring.)