PEOPLE v. CORN

No. 5-04-0351.

832 N.E.2d 897 (2005)

358 Ill. App.3d 825

295 Ill.Dec. 447

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. William CORN, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District.

June 22, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel M. Kirwan, Deputy Defender, Paige Clark Strawn, Assistant Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Mt. Vernon, IL, for Appellant.

Wayne Morris, State's Attorney, McLeansboro, IL,; Norbert J. Goetten, Director, Stephen E. Norris, Deputy Director, Trent M. Marshall, Staff Attorney, Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, Mt. Vernon, IL, for Appellee.


Justice KUEHN delivered the opinion of the court:

William Ronald Corn (Corn) was asked if he had anything to say on his own behalf before his punishment was pronounced. He stated that he had made "a big mistake." Indeed, the enormity of his decision to assist James Davis (Davis) in Davis's plot to purloin a vast quantity of anhydrous ammonia from a southern Illinois fertilizer plant was a choice that condemns him to a prison sentence of at least 15 years. The error...

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