Justice BILANDIC delivered the opinion of the court:
The issue in this appeal is whether the propriety of a criminal sentence may be judged by comparing it to the sentences imposed on defendants in other cases. We hold that the excessiveness of a sentence may not be determined from a consideration of the sentences imposed on defendants in separate, unrelated cases.
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Defendant, Jay Harry Fern, was charged in the circuit court of McHenry County...
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