The PEOPLE v. Pierce

This is an appeal from the circuit court of Cook County which granted the State’s motion to dismiss the defendant’s petition for a post-conviction hearing and amendment thereto.

The defendant was charged in three indictments with the crimes of rape, indecent liberties, and deviate sexual conduct, and entered pleas of not guilty thereto. On April 15, 1963, he withdrew his pleas of not guilty and entered a plea of guilty to each indictment. He was sentenced to concurrent terms of five to ten years imprisonment on each indictment. A direct appeal was taken to this court claiming double jeopardy.…