Court Opinion

ID: 9819482
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 06:26:13.130935+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:27:03.077156
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JUSTICE COOK, dissenting: I respectfuUy dissent. I disagree that the date of conviction, the date that final judgment was entered, is the same whether or not a posttrial motion is filed. A final judgment can be appealed, but the timely filing of a posttrial motion prevents the appeal of a judgment until the motion is resolved. 134 Ill. 2d R. 606(b). During the pendency of a posttrial motion, the judgment is interlocutory; the trial court has complete power to vacate or modify it during that time. See People v. Talach, 114 Ill. App. 3d 813, 818, 448 N.E.2d 638, 642 (1983). There is no final judgment until the posttrial motion is resolved.