Supreme Court of Illinois

The Illinois truth-in-sentencing provisions of the Unified Code of Corrections applied to the offense of which defendant was convicted, and the trial judge lacked the discretion to order that defendant was not subject to the provisions.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/03/2002
• Published 11/08/2002

Judges

• Justice FITZGERALD delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield (Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General, William L. Browers, Jay Paul Hoffmann, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• G. Joseph Weller, Deputy Defender, Bruce Kirkham, Assistant Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Elgin, for respondent Jeremiah Pasewaldt.