People v. Lemons

Docket No. 87131–Agenda 8–January 2000.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. HENRY BRUCE LEMONS, Appellant.

Opinion filed April 20, 2000.

Following a 1997 bench trial in the circuit court of Pike County, Henry Bruce Lemons was convicted of aggravated battery and resisting a peace officer. He was sentenced to an extended 10-year prison term for the aggravated battery and a concurrent 364-day term for resisting a peace officer.

The basis of the extended-term sentence was a 1984 burglary to which defendant was convicted February 26, 1985, and sentenced to 18 months of probation. In…