Lotero v. People

PRESIDING JUSTICE McMORROW

delivered the opinion of the court:

The instant appeal questions whether the petition for post-conviction relief (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 38, par. 122 — 1 et seq.) of Hector Lotero (hereinafter defendant), an alien, is sufficient to state a claim based on ineffective assistance of counsel with respect to his plea of guilty to a narcotics charge. The defendant’s post-conviction petition and supporting affidavit indicated that the defendant’s trial counsel informed the defendant that although the attorney was “not an immigration attorney,” the attorney believed there…