People Ex Rel. Burbank v. Irving

In 1970 the petitioner, Ronald Burbank, was found guilty of murder and was sentenced to an indeterminate term of 100 to 150 years’ imprisonment ■ following a jury trial in the circuit court of Cook County. He was convicted of participating in an aborted armed robbery in which his partner had shot and killed the victim. The petitioner has since served his minimum sentence, with allowance for statutory good time credits, in the Department of Corrections Stateville Correctional Center in Joliet and has applied for parole before the Prisoner Review Board four times, all of which have been denied.

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