People v. Jackson

PRESIDING JUSTICE QUINLAN

delivered the opinion of the court:

The petitioner, Robert Jackson, filed a petition in the circuit court of Cook County under the Post-Conviction Hearing Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 38, par. 122 — 1 et seq.) and requested an evidentiary hearing on the following contentions: (1) the trial judge improperly found that he had waived his right to a jury trial without first determining whether he understood that right or the consequences of his waiver; (2) he had been denied his right to the effective assistance of counsel on appeal; and (3) the State had failed to.prove…