People v. Shaw

              Filed 11/26/08 NO. 4-06-0734
IN THE APPELLATE COURT
OF ILLINOIS
FOURTH DISTRICT
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS,
Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
CAMERON L. SHAW,
Defendant-Appellant.
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Appeal from
Circuit Court of
Macon County
No. 04CF821
Honorable
Theodore E. Paine,
Judge Presiding.
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JUSTICE STEIGMANN delivered the opinion of the court:
In October 2004, a jury convicted defendant, Cameron L.
Shaw, of two counts of armed robbery (720 ILCS 5/18-2 (West
2004)). The trial court later sentenced him to 10 years in
prison on each count, with those sentences to run consecutively.
In July 2006, defendant pro se filed an amended peti-tion
for postconviction relief under the Post-Conviction Hearing
Act (Act) (725 ILCS 5/122-1 through 122-8 (West 2006)). In
August 2006, the trial court dismissed defendant's amended
petition, finding that it was frivolous and patently without
merit. In so finding, the court directed the circuit clerk to
mail a copy of its written order to defendant's prison warden so
that a hearing could be conducted, pursuant to section 3-6-3(d)
of the Unified Code of Corrections (Code) (730 ILCS 5/3-6-3(d)
(West 2006)), to determine whether some of defendant's good-conduct
credit should be revoked because he filed a frivolous