Legal Opinion
People v. Wakat
Illinois Supreme Court
Decided September 24, 1953No. 32829PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Schaefer
After a hearing under the Post-Conviction Hearing Act, the criminal court of Cook County set aside a judgment convicting Leslie George Wakat of burglary and sentencing him to the penitentiary, and granted him a new trial. By this writ of error, the People seek to review the judgment entered in the post-conviction proceeding.
Wakat was convicted after a jury trial and was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a minimum term of ten and a maximum term of twenty years. It is not disputed that he was without funds to finance a review of his conviction.
His petition under the…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Johnson v. ZerbstSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- United States v. HaymanSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
- Waley v. JohnstonSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Dowd v. United States Ex Rel. CookSupreme Court of the United States · 1951
- People v. DaleIllinois Supreme Court · 1950
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3Cited by21 opinions
- Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- People v. RuizIllinois Supreme Court · 1997
- People v. HryciukIllinois Supreme Court · 1954
- Leslie George Wakat v. Peter F. Harlib, Irwin Haviland, Harold T. Thompsen, Thomas J. Murphy and Thomas v. LyonsCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1958
- State v. D'ONOFRIOCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1959
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