People v. Jordan

The defendant, Louis Jordan, appeals his five-year sentence for forgery (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch. 38, par. 17 — 3(a)(2)).

The record shows that the defendant was initially charged with one count each of forgery and theft. In return for the defendant’s guilty plea to the forgery count, the State agreed to dismiss the theft count and to a five-year limit on the forgery sentence.

According to the factual basis for the plea, the defendant worked with Floyd Kaiser at a Rock Island mission in the summer of 1989. Without Kaiser’s permission or knowledge, the defendant obtained an American Express…