People v. Lampton

In May 2004, the State charged defendant, Daren M. Lampton, with three counts of armed robbery (720 ILCS 5/18 — 2(a)(1) (West 2002)), a Class X felony. Following a November 2004 trial, a jury convicted defendant, and the trial court later sentenced him to three concurrent terms of 35 years’ imprisonment. Defendant appealed, alleging (1) his multiple convictions for armed robbery violated the one-act, one-crime rule; (2) a new sentencing hearing was required because the court relied on multiple armed-robbery convictions in sentencing when only one conviction was proper; and (3) he was entitled…