People v. Billops

Defendant pleaded guilty to and was convicted of criminal damage to property and burglary in the circuit court of St. Clair County and was fined $46 plus court costs for the criminal-damage-to-property conviction and sentenced to four years in prison for the burglary conviction. On appeal, defendant contends that the failure of the State to prosecute him for burglary at the time it prosecuted him for criminal damage to property rendered the burglary conviction improper under the compulsory-joinder statute, which requires that all offenses based on the same act be prosecuted in a single…