People v. Nixon

PRESIDING JUSTICE STEIGMANN

delivered the opinion of the court:

In March 1992, defendant, Randolph Nixon, pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1991, ch. 38, par. 12 — 16(d)) in exchange for the State’s dismissing a charge of criminal sexual assault (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1991, ch. 38, par. 12 — 13(a)(1)) involving the same victim. The parties’ plea agreement imposed no restrictions upon the sentences the court could impose except that they would not be consecutive sentences.

In April 1992, after the trial court conducted a sentencing hearing, it sentenced…