PEOPLE v. CALHOUN

No. 1-05-4073.

880 N.E.2d 633 (2007)

377 Ill. App.3d 662

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Leontea CALHOUN, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Third Division.

December 5, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago (Michael J. Pelletier, Deputy Defender, and Sean Collins-Stapleton, of counsel), for Appellant.

Richard J. Devine, State's Attorney of Cook County, Chicago (James E. Fitzgerald, Marie Quinlivan Czech and Joseph D. Cook, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for Appellee.


Presiding Justice QUINN delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant Leontea Calhoun entered a plea of guilty to two counts of reckless homicide and was subsequently sentenced to concurrent terms of 20 years' imprisonment. On appeal, defendant contends that the circuit court violated his due process rights by failing to provide him with the opportunity to choose to be sentenced under the statute in effect at the time of the offense or the law in effect at the time...

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