People v. Bahena

PRESIDING JUSTICE GEIGER

delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant, Octavio Bahena, appeals the order of the circuit court of Lake County denying his motion to reconsider his sentence. The defendant contends that (1) the trial court failed to admonish him that he had to move to withdraw his guilty plea in order to challenge his sentence and (2) the extended-term sentence the court imposed was an improper double enhancement.

A grand jury indicted the defendant for defacing the identification marks on a firearm (720 ILCS 5/24 — 5(a) (West 1996)) and the unlawful possession of a weapon by a…