People v. Pastewski

The question common to these consolidated appeals involves the construction of the statute governing the determination of the maximum commitment period for a defendant who has been found not guilty of a criminal offense by reason of insanity. In each of the cases before us, the trial judge relied on a provision of the extended-term sentencing statute in calculating the defendant’s maximum period of commitment. The appellate court reversed in both cases, interpreting this court’s recent decision in People v. Palmer (1992), 148 Ill. 2d 70, as forbidding application of the extended-term statute…