People v. Carrera

PRESIDING JUSTICE ZENOFF

delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, Jesus Carrera, appeals from an order of the circuit court of Du Page County granting the State’s motion to dismiss his petition under the Post-Conviction Hearing Act (Act) (725 ILCS 5/122 — 1 et seq. (West 2006)). For the reasons that follow, we find that, because defendant had already completed his sentence of probation when he filed his petition, he does not have standing under the Act, and we affirm.

On June 28, 2004, defendant pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful possession of less than 15 grams of a controlled…