People v. Whitfield Modified on Denial of Rehearing

Docket No. 98136–Agenda 11–January 2005.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. RONALD WHITFIELD, Appellant.

Defendant, Ronald Whitfield, appeals the dismissal of his postconviction petition. He contends that his constitutional rights were substantially violated because he entered a plea of guilty in exchange for a specific sentence, but, with the addition of a statutorily required term of mandatory supervised release (MSR), about which the trial court never admonished him, he was given a more onerous sentence and, as a result, denied the benefit of his negotiated plea bargain. As a…