People v. Davis

Defendant, Ronnie L. Davis, appeals the trial court’s second-stage dismissal of his petition, filed under the Post-Conviction Hearing Act (Act) (725 ILCS 5/122 — 1 et seq. (West 2002)), in which he argued, inter alia, that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to bring forward what he claims was potentially exculpatory testimony from a witness to the incident that led to defendant’s conviction. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

Defendant was convicted of unlawful possession of a controlled substance and armed violence in connection with an incident in 1997, in which…