People v. Boyd

PRESIDING JUSTICE COOK

delivered the opinion of the court:

In April 1996, a jury convicted defendant, Albert Boyd, of the first degree felony murder (720 ILCS 5/9 — 1(a)(3) (West 1994)) of Amanda Mulry. In June 1996, the trial court sentenced him to 50 years’ imprisonment. On appeal of the December 2003 second-stage dismissal of his postconviction petition, he argues his first degree murder conviction must be vacated because of the Supreme Court of Illinois’s decision in People v. Morgan, 197 Ill. 2d 404, 758 N.E.2d 813 (2001). We affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

On August 14, 1995, defendant was charged…