People v. Flaugher

PRESIDING JUSTICE MYERSCOUGH,

dissenting:

I respectfully dissent even though this defendant committed heinous crimes. The trial court here correctly applied the law even in the face of a maze of confusing sentencing statutes. I would affirm the trial court on any number of grounds. The trial court lacked jurisdiction to increase defendant’s sentence for committing a felony while on bond because the original judge stayed the mittimus, that is, sentencing judgment, for 17 years, rendering the order void and causing the court to lose jurisdiction to enforce it. Alternatively, the trial court did…