Supreme Court of Illinois

In the matter of a 1980 sentence to concurrent extended terms of 60 years each for armed robbery and armed violence, order of habeas corpus is denied where the procedural rule announced in Apprendi does not apply retroactively to cases in which the direct appeal process had concluded when Apprendi was decided.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/02/2004
• Published 12/16/2004

Judges

• Justice GARMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield (Gary Feinerman, Solicitor General, and Linda D. Woloshin and Jay Paul Hoffmann, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Steven A. Block, of Butler, Rubin, Saltarelli & Boyd, L.L.P., and James A. Cherney and Gregory A. Sager, of Latham & Watkins, L.L.P., Chicago, for appellee.