People v. Johnson

PRESIDING JUSTICE HOFFMAN

delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, Benjamin Johnson, appeals from an order revoking his probation and sentencing him to concurrent prison terms of five and six years, respectively. He raises the following issues for review: (1) whether the State failed to prove the probation violation by a preponderance of the evidence; (2) whether the court lacked jurisdiction to revoke defendant’s probation because the State failed to initiate revocation proceedings until after the expiration of his probation term; and (3) whether his sentence was based upon improper…