People v. Brim

Defendant, Richard Brim, appeals from the Cass County circuit court’s dismissal of his post-conviction petition filed pursuant to the Post-Conviction Hearing Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1991, ch. 38, pars. 122 — 1 through 122 — 8). He argues: (1) the trial judge abused his discretion by refusing to appoint new post-conviction counsel because appointed counsel had a conflict of interest; (2) his due process protections were violated by the trial judge’s denial of his request for a new judge to consider his post-conviction claims; and (3) because the constitutional claims he alleged presented the…