People v. Raczkowski

PRESIDING JUSTICE QUINN

delivered the opinion of the court:

On June 13, 1990, defendant Zbigniew Raczkowski pleaded guilty to a charge of retail theft (720 ILCS 5/16A — 3 (West 1992)). The question presented here on appeal, one of first impression in Illinois, is whether the circuit court’s failure to provide defendant with an interpreter during his plea proceedings rendered his conviction void. For the following reasons, we find that it did not.

BACKGROUND

After defendant pleaded guilty, the circuit court ordered defendant to pay a fine and sentenced him to one year of conditional discharge,…