People v. McBride

PRESIDING JUSTICE WEXSTTEN

delivered the opinion of the court:

After the trial court sentenced him to a 12-year extended term of imprisonment with credit for time served on probation, the defendant, Kevin D. McBride, filed a motion to reconsider, challenging the extended-term portion of the sentence. Thereafter, the trial court reduced the defendant’s sentence to a seven-year nonextended term but denied him the previously awarded probation credit. On appeal, the defendant maintains that the trial court’s modification of his sentence improperly increased it in violation of section 5 — 8—1(c) of…