The PEOPLE v. Wease

Defendant, Larry N. Wease, age 18; entered a plea of guilty to a charge of burglary brought against him in the circuit court of Morgan County and was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of not less than two nor more than ten years. Approximately two years later he filed a petition under- the Post-Conviction Hearing Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1967, ch. 38, pars. 122 — 1 et seq.), alleging his constitutional rights had been violated in that his plea of guilty had been coerced, and that his privately retained counsel was incompetent. After hearing evidence and considering the record in the…