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LAPOINTE v. CHRANS

No. 2-01-0593.

770 N.E.2d 701 (2002)

329 Ill. App.3d 1080

264 Ill.Dec. 396

Phillip E. LaPOINTE, Petitioner-Appellant, v. James A. CHRANS, Warden, Joliet Correctional Center, Respondent-Appellee.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Second District.

Rehearing Denied June 14, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Aldo E. Botti, Christian R. Rivera, Botti, Marinaccio & DeLongis, Ltd., Oakbrook, for Phillip E. LaPointe.

James E. Chrans, Appellee: Honorable James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General, William L. Browers, J. Paul Hoffmann, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, for James A. Chrans.

Justice BYRNE delivered the opinion of the court:

Petitioner, Phillip E. LaPointe, an inmate in the Joliet Correctional Center, appeals the dismissal of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, in which he alleges that his sentence of natural life imprisonment for first-degree murder violates Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000). After petitioner pleaded guilty, the trial court...

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