Court Opinion

ID: 9717423
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 07:03:22.409127+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:10:17.553250
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE LYTTON, specially concurring: I concur with the majority on the narrow grounds that, on appeal, defendant has no right to amend her petition for postconviction relief to allege the absence of culpable negligence. But see People v. Montgomery, 232 Ill. App. 3d 1101, 598 N.E.2d 400 (1992). I cannot support, however, the majority’s sweeping language, which is so broad that it would preclude any amendments to a post-conviction petition at any time, even during litigation in the trial court. Obviously, any interpretation of this language beyond the facts of this case is dicta. Thus, I concur solely on the grounds that a defendant may not amend a petition for postconviction relief for the first time on appeal.