The PEOPLE v. Burton

Defendant, Donald Burton, was convicted of the crime of felony theft in the circuit court of Ogle County on his plea of guilty to the charge and sentenced to serve a term of one to five years in the penitentiary. Thereafter he filed a petition under the Post-Conviction Hearing Act in which he alleged in substance that his attorney who represented him at the time the guilty plea was entered had, either inadvertently or deliberately, misinformed him concerning the punishment he would receive on a plea of guilty; that his plea had been entered only because he had been told by his counsel that he…