People v. Belmont

¶ 1 Defendant, Adam D. Belmont, appeals his sentence of 12 years' incarceration *829 for aggravated criminal sexual assault with a dangerous weapon ( 720 ILCS 5/11-1.30(a)(1) (West 2012) ). He contends that the sentence was plain error when the trial court was not informed of, and thus did not apply, a sentencing enhancement that required the court to add 10 years to the sentence, making the lowest legal sentence 16 years. The State contends that the matter is not plain error or that defendant is estopped from challenging the sentence when he benefited from the error. We determine that plain…