Supreme Court of Illinois

An appellate court judgment in an appeal of sentences for aggravated battery and violation of an order of protection is reversed in part where defendant could raise a voidness issue in his appeal, and an extended-term sentence imposed on the order of protection conviction was unauthorized by statute and void.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/20/2004
• Published 02/12/2007

Judges

• Justice GARMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Daniel D. Yuhas, Deputy Defender, and Martin J. Ryan, Assistant Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Springfield, for appellant., Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, and John C. Piland, State's Attorney, Urbana (Gary Feinerman, Solicitor General, and Linda D. Woloshin and Karen Kaplan, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for the People.