People v. Hanson

PRESIDING JUSTICE JONES

delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant, Kenneth Hanson, was convicted of the offense of unlawful possession of a firearm (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 38, par. 24— 3.1(a)(3)) and sentenced to a term of seven months’ imprisonment. The defendant’s conviction was affirmed on appeal by the Fifth District Appellate Court. (People v. Hanson (1983), 120 Ill. App. 3d 84, 457 N.E.2d 1048.) Subsequently, while his petition for leave to appeal was pending in the supreme court, the defendant filed a petition for post-conviction relief, which was dismissed by the trial court…