People v. Harris

PRESIDING JUSTICE LINN

delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, Allan A. Harris, was convicted of murder and was sentenced to a term of 35 years’ incarceration. His conviction was affirmed on direct appeal by an order entered pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 23. (People v. Harris (1983), 112 Ill. App. 3d 1159.) There, he contended that the trial court abused its discretion in imposing the sentence and that the mittimus must be corrected. Subsequently, he filed two pro se petitions for post-conviction relief in which he claimed that he was denied his constitutional rights because at the time…