People v. Davis

The defendant, Darnell Davis, filed a pro se petition for relief under the Post-Conviction Hearing Act (Act) (725 ILCS 5/122 — 1 et seq. (West 2008)), contending the trial judge failed to follow the rule established by the Illinois Supreme Court in People v. Whitfield, 217 Ill. 2d 177, 840 N.E.2d 658 (2005). In his postconviction petition, the defendant alleged the trial court failed to inform him at the time he was sentenced on his negotiated guilty plea that he would serve a 3-year term of mandatory supervised release (MSR) following the 16-year sentence he accepted and, thus, breached the…