292 Ill. App. 3d 185 - People v. McClain’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bounds v. Smith · 174 Ill. 2d 410 - People v. Gaultney · 111 Ill. 2d 350 - Harris v. Manor Healthcare Corp. · Collins v. Board of Trustees of the Firemen's Annuity & Benefit Fund · 161 Ill. 2d 502 - Chicago Bar Ass'n v. Illinois State Board of Elections
Most-quoted passages
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“The petitioner-inmate need only plead sufficient facts from which the trial court could find a valid claim of deprivation of a constitutional right. Accordingly, we conclude that a prison ‘lockdown,’ restricting an inmate’s access to the prison law library, does not constitute a legitimate excuse for the inmate’s not filing a postcon-viction petition in a timely fashion. McClain, 226 Ill.Dec. 66 , 684 N.E.2d at 1065 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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