Justice McMORROW delivered the opinion of the court:
Section 5-8-1(c) of the Unified Code of Corrections prohibits a trial court from increasing a sentence after it has been imposed (730 ILCS 5/5-8-1(c) (West 1992)). The question in this appeal is whether the trial court violated section 5-8-1(c) when the court vacated the defendant's consecutive sentences of nine and six years' imprisonment and instead imposed a "single sentence" of 15 years' incarceration.
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