Judgment vacated and cause remanded.
JUSTICE STEIGMANN delivered the opinion of the court:
This appeal presents the question of whether, and to what extent, the trial court at a sentencing hearing may sua sponte question a defendant who has neither testified at that hearing nor exercised his right of allocution.
I. THE FACTS
A. Defendant's Guilty Pleas
In July 1988, defendant, Otis D. Iseminger, Jr., was charged with...
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