People v. Barksdale

PRESIDING JUSTICE BURKE

delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant James Barksdale appeals from an order of the circuit court summarily dismissing his second postconviction petition without an evidentiary hearing. Following a jury trial, defendant was convicted in 1972 of rape, deviate sexual assault, and aggravated kidnaping, and we affirmed his convictions and sentences on direct appeal. People v. Barksdale, 24 Ill. App. 3d 489, 321 N.E.2d 489 (1974). Thereafter, defendant’s subsequent initial postconviction petition was dismissed in 1985, and his second petition in 2000. On appeal,…