People v. Shanklin

PRESIDING JUSTICE KNECHT

delivered the opinion of the court:

On September 21, 2001, defendant, Ronald Shanklin, filed a pro se petition for postconviction relief, alleging (1) he was unfit or incompetent when he entered his guilty plea and could not have understood the ramifications of the plea agreement; (2) he received ineffective assistance of counsel because trial counsel failed to alert the trial court defendant was unfit for legal proceedings; and (3) trial counsel was ineffective for failure to cross-examine the victim at defendant’s sentencing hearing. On October 12, 2001, the trial…