Defendant was convicted, after jury trial, of multiple felonies, including armed robbery and attempted murder, for striking 2 women with a baseball bat and robbing them. Court properly summarily dismissed Defendant's 3 pro se postconviction petitions. No ineffective assistance of counsel in counsel's failure to admit, pursuant to the completeness doctrine, the entirety of his recorded conversations to give Defendant's statements context. The published statements were not misleading, and thus the completeness doctrine does not apply. Interpretation of the evidence is within the province of the jury. Even without the recordings, evidence was not closely balanced, as other testimonial and physical evidence linked Defendant to the crime. (MIKVA and CONNORS, concurring.)
Illinois Appellate Court
Criminal Court
Post-Conviction Petitions