PEOPLE EX REL. GIBSON v. CANNON

No. 48517.

65 Ill.2d 366 (1976)

357 N.E.2d 1180

THE PEOPLE ex rel. RANDALL L. GIBSON, Appellee, v. JOSEPH CANNON, Warden, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed December 3, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin Rudman, State's Attorney, of Joliet (Thomas E. Cowgill, Assistant State's Attorney, of counsel), for appellant.

Robert Agostinelli, Deputy Defender, and Mark W. Burkhalter, Assistant Defender, Office of State Appellate Defender, of Ottawa, for appellee.


Affirmed and remanded.

MR. JUSTICE CREBS delivered the opinion of the court:

In this case we are asked to decide whether section 5-8-4(f) of the Unified Code of Corrections as it read when defendant was sentenced (Laws of 1972, at 2258), mandated consecutive sentencing where the defendant received a sentence based upon an offense committed while on parole.

On April 27, 1971, Randall L. Gibson was sentenced...

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