PEOPLE v. HICKS

No. 76525.

647 N.E.2d 257 (1995)

164 Ill.2d 218

207 Ill.Dec. 295

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Tazell HICKS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

January 26, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rita A. Fry, Public Defender, and Suzanne A. Isaacson and Karen E. Tietz, Asst. Public Defenders, Chicago, for appellant.

Roland Burris, Atty. Gen., Springfield, and Jack O'Malley, State's Atty., Chicago (Arleen C. Anderson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, and Renee G. Goldfarb, Theodore Fotios Burtzos and Jon J. Walters, Asst. State's Attys., of counsel), for the People.


Justice McMORROW delivered the opinion of the court:

In this appeal we are asked to resolve a conflict among the districts of our appellate court with respect to whether the trial court may impose an extended-term sentence for a felony conviction, where that felony conviction was enhanced from a misdemeanor because of the accused's previous criminal convictions.

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