Court Opinion

ID: 9729405
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 14:34:05.931294+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:25:57.645035
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JUSTICE COOK, specially concurring: A sentence which does not conform to a statutory requirement is void, and that defect may be raised at any time. People v. Arna, 168 Ill. 2d 107, 113, 658 N.E.2d 445, 448 (1995). I concur, not because petitioner’s petition for postconviction relief was not timely filed, or because petitioner’s petition did not conform strictly to the requirements of section 10—124 of the Code, but because I am not persuaded that the sentence here was a void sentence. If the sentence were void, it could be attacked in an untimely postconviction petition (see In re Marriage of Stefiniw, 253 Ill. App. 3d 196, 202, 625 N.E.2d 358, 363 (1993) (void judgment may be attacked without complying with time requirements of section 2—1401)) or in a habeas corpus petition. See People v. Brazee, 316 Ill. App. 3d 1230, 1234, 738 N.E.2d 646, 649 (2000) (a void sentence may be attacked by habeas corpus at any time, even where it is argued that defendant has waived consideration of the issue).