People v. Farmer

Charged by information with five counts of armed robbery, the defendant, on July 18, 1979, acting pro se, entered a negotiated plea of guilty to one count and was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment. Defendant subsequently filed a post-conviction petition on February 13, 1986, pursuant to the Post-Conviction Hearing Act (Act) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 38, par. 122 — 1 et seq.). That petition alleged he was denied assistance of counsel and that he was mentally incompetent at the time of his guilty plea. On March 12, 1986, the circuit court of Douglas County dismissed the petition as…