People v. Hudson

In 1976, defendant Clifford Hudson was convicted of murder and sentenced to 14 to 20 years imprisonment. In 1979 we reduced the degree of the offense pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 615(b)(3) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 110A, par. 615(b)(3)) from murder to voluntary manslaughter and remanded the cause for sentencing on the lesser offense. (People v. Hudson (1979), 71 Ill. App. 3d 504, 390 N.E.2d 5.) On remand, in 1980, the trial court denied defendant’s motion to be sentenced under the new sentencing laws effective February 1, 1978, and sentenced defendant under the prior law to &Á to 19& years…