Justice HARTMAN delivered the opinion of the court:
Defendant, Michael Smith, appeals from his conviction of retail theft, challenging only his eligibility for an extended-term sentence. The issue raised by this appeal is whether the circuit court erred in sentencing defendant to an extended term where the offense already had been upgraded from a misdemeanor to a class 4 felony.
On August 25, 1992, defendant stole a white T-shirt, valued at $18, from the J...
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