PEOPLE v. LEMONS

No. 87131.

729 N.E.2d 489 (2000)

191 Ill.2d 155

246 Ill.Dec. 116

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Henry Bruce LEMONS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

April 20, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel D. Yuhas, Deputy Defender, Gary R. Peterson and Catherine K. Hart, Assistant Defenders, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Springfield, for Appellant.

James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield Brett Irving, State's Attorney, Pittsfield (Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General, William L. Browers and Adrian J. Barrio, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for the People.


Justice MILLER delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a 1997 bench trial in the circuit court of Pike County, Henry Bruce Lemons was convicted of aggravated battery and resisting a peace officer. He was sentenced to an extended 10-year prison term for the aggravated battery and a concurrent 364-day term for resisting a peace officer.

The basis of the extended-term sentence was a 1984 burglary to which defendant was convicted February 26, 1985, and sentenced...

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