People v. Dixon

Following a joint bench and jury trial (jury as to defendant) of defendant and three codefendants in the circuit court of Du Page County, the defendant, Gregory Dixon, was convicted of armed violence, aggravated battery, mob action, and disorderly conduct. He was sentenced to concurrent terms of four years’ imprisonment on the armed-violence and aggravated-battery convictions. The trial court imposed no sentence, however, on the mob-violence and disorderly-conduct convictions, holding that they “merged” into the other two offenses. The appellate court, in a Rule 23 order (73 Ill. 2d R. 23),…