People v. Kilpatrick

Section 5 — 8—1(c) of the Unified Code of Corrections prohibits a trial court from increasing a sentence after it has been imposed (730 ILCS 5/5 — 8—1(c) (West 1992)). The question in this appeal is whether the trial court violated section 5 — 8—1(c) when the court vacated the defendant’s consecutive sentences of nine and six years’ imprisonment and instead imposed a "single sentence” of 15 years’ incarceration.

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Defendant, Jeffrey A. Kilpatrick, was charged with multiple offenses relating to a November 1992 incident at the home of his former girlfriend, Barbara Fox. In a February 1993 court…