Court Opinion

ID: 9519627
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 01:20:39.619333+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:44:34.004515
License: Public Domain

Mr. JUSTICE KARNS, dissenting: In dissent for the reasons expressed in my dissenting opinions in People v. Meng, 54 Ill. App. 3d 357, 369 N.E.2d 549 (5th Dist. 1977), and People v. Spicer, 61 Ill. App. 3d 748, 378 N.E.2d 169 (5th Dist. 1978). I would add that there is not the slightest suggestion that either Ishman or Bogay received ineffective representation. The cases were severed; each received a separate trial. Neither testified against the other. It is obvious that the severance cured any possible conflict that the public defender’s office perceived as no motion to withdraw from representation of either Bogay or Ishman was ever filed. In fact there were no “irreconcilable differences” or inconsistencies in their defenses. I cannot find a remote possibility of conflict here.