Where a defendant seeks to file a successive postconviction petition for relief from judgment, he must demonstrate both cause for failing to raise the issue in an earlier petition and prejudice for the trial court to grant him leave to file.The 1st District Appellate Court affirmed the decision of Cook County Circuit Judge Evelyn B. Clay.Mitchell Morrow was acting as a pimp when he shot a customer engaged in a fistfight with two prostitutes. The man died, and Morrow split the $160 in his wallet evenly with the two …