People v. Smith

PRESIDING JUSTICE LORENZ

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an appeal from denial of a petition for relief pursuant to section 2 — 1401 of the Code of Civil Procedure (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 110, par. 2—1401) following criminal convictions.

We affirm.

Defendant, Lamont Smith, was convicted of rape, armed robbery, and home invasion on March 14, 1984, after a bench trial before the Honorable Kenneth Gillis. In that proceeding, defendant was represented by Russell Bom, an assistant Cook County public defender. Subsequently, in April 1985, upon the State’s confession of error, this court…