People v. Little

ILLINOIS OFFICIAL REPORTS Appellate Court People v. Little,

2012 IL App (5th) 100547

Appellate Court THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Caption KELVIN LITTLE, Defendant-Appellant. District & No. Fifth District Docket No. 5-10-0547 Filed October 9, 2012 Held Defendant lost his right to a direct appeal through no fault of his own and (Note: This syllabus he used his original postconviction petition to reinstate his right to a constitutes no part of direct appeal and, therefore, his subsequent postconviction petition was the opinion of the court not a successive petition…