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PEOPLE v. BEACHEM

No. 1-99-0852.

784 N.E.2d 285 (2002)

336 Ill. App.3d 688

271 Ill.Dec. 67

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Dionna BEACHEM, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Third Division.

December 24, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Pelletier, Deputy Defender, and Michael H. Orenstein, Assistant Appellate Defender, Chicago, for Appellant.

Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney of Cook County, Chicago (Renee Goldfarb, Christine Cook, Alan J. Spellberg, William D. Carroll and Michele Grimaldi Stein, of counsel), for Appellee.

Justice WOLFSON delivered the opinion of the court:

In Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000), the United States Supreme Court issued a decision that penetrates the constitutional foundation of this State's extended sentencing procedures. In this appeal from a summary dismissal of her post-conviction petition, Dionna Beachem (Beachem) challenges the constitutionality of the extended sentence...

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