People v. Carlisle

PRESIDING JUSTICE GREEN

delivered the opinion of the court:

On February 18, 1988, defendant Arnold Carlisle filed a pro se petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the circuit court of Macon County. That court considered the petition to be for post-conviction relief. The trial court, in dismissing the petition, indicated the complaints “in this third post-conviction proceeding” were “frivolous and patently without merit to the point of harassment” and ordered the petition dismissed without general docketing. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 38, par. 122 — 2.1(a).) Defendant appeals. We affirm.

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