People v. Johnson

PRESIDING JUSTICE HALL

delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant, Anthony Johnson, appeals from the dismissal of his petition for relief pursuant to the Post-Conviction Hearing Act (the Act) (725 ILCS 5/122 — 1 et seq. (West 1998)). The circuit court rejected the defendant’s claim that he was convicted under a statute later declared unconstitutional as violative of the single subject rule provisions of the Illinois Constitution of 1970 and dismissed the petition as frivolous and without merit. On appeal, the defendant has abandoned his original constitutional claim and now contends that…