People v. Barksdale

SECOND DIVISION

December 31, 2001

No. 1--00--1628

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, ) Appeal from the) Circuit Court of

Plaintiff-Appellee, ) Cook County.))))

JAMES BARKSDALE, ) Honorable) William S. Wood,

Defendant-Appellant. ) Judge Presiding.

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…