People v. Rivera

Defendant, Elmer Rivera, entered a plea of guilty to six counts of burglary and one count of escape in the circuit court of Lake County. He received a term of probation but subsequently violated it. Following a sentencing hearing after revocation of defendant’s probation, the trial court divided the burglary convictions into three groups and imposed concurrent four-year terms of imprisonment for each conviction in each group. It also imposed a four-year term for the escape conviction. All four four-year terms of imprisonment were to run consecutively to one another for a total of 16 years’…