People v. Fukama-Kabika

This case presents question as to whether trial court properly denied defendant’s post-conviction petition that challenged trial court’s amended Judgment-Sentence that changed defendant’s 3-year mandatory supervised release (MSR) term that had been imposed with respect to his two criminal sexual assault convictions to “3 years-natural life.” While defendant argued in his petition for post-conviction relief that Rule 472 did not give trial court jurisdiction to enter order changing MSR term, Appellate Court, in affirming instant denial, found that change in defendant’s MSR term concerned only clerical error, and that Rule 472 allowed trial court to make instant change to defendant’s MSR term.