People v. Green

On May 16, 1989, following a jury trial in the circuit court of Macon County, defendant Paul Green was found guilty of the offenses of armed violence and possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 38, par. 33A—2; ch. 56½, par. 1401(b)(2).) He subsequently received concurrent jail sentences of 12 years on the armed-violence conviction and 6 years on the controlled-substance conviction. These sentences were to run consecutively to a 10-year prison sentence imposed for another armed-violence conviction.

On February 28, 1989, defendant was charged by…