People v. Barnes

The defendant, Kathleen Barnes, previously pied guilty to three counts of unlawful acquisition of a controlled substance (720 ILCS 570/406(b)(3) (West 1994)) and was sentenced to a period of probation. She subsequently admitted to violating the terms of her probation after being charged with three additional counts of unlawful acquisition of a controlled substance. Upon entering into a fully negotiated plea agreement on all six counts, she was sentenced to an aggregate term of eight years’ imprisonment. The trial court summarily denied her pro se request for sentence modification and the…