PEOPLE v. WALLACE

No. 70005.

570 N.E.2d 334 (1991)

143 Ill.2d 59

155 Ill.Dec. 821

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. John J. WALLACE, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

March 28, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel M. Kirwan, Deputy Defender, and Janet Gandy Fowler, Asst. Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, Mount Vernon, for appellant.

Neil F. Hartigan, Atty. Gen., Springfield (Robert J. Ruiz, Sol. Gen., and Terence M. Madsen and Kathryn M. Frost, Asst. Attys. Gen., Chicago, of counsel), for the People.


Justice HEIPLE delivered the opinion of the court:

The issue presented in this case is whether a defendant who enters a plea of guilty and objects only to the sentence imposed must file a written motion to reconsider prior to filing a notice of appeal. We conclude that the filing of a motion to reconsider a sentence is a prerequisite to an appeal from that sentence.

Defendant, John Wallace, pleaded guilty to charges of armed robbery, attempted murder and intimidation...

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