Right ending. Wrong script.
That’s how the Illinois Supreme Court interpreted the lone criminal matter it weighed in on this week.
In a unanimous opinion authored by Justice Robert R. Thomas, the court said Thursday that a divided appellate court correctly ruled that a man’s post-conviction petition should proceed instead of being dismissed.
However, in deciding that a trial court was tardy in tossing the man’s ineffective counsel claim, “[n]either the appellate court majority nor the …