People v. Palmer

Defendant, Billy D. Palmer, was found guilty of aggravated battery (720 ILCS 5/12 — 4(b)(1) (West 2002)) by a Champaign County jury on November 12, 2002. The circuit court sentenced him to 36 months’ intensive probation. Defendant violated the terms of his intensive probation, and the court resentenced him, this time to seven years in prison. Defendant appeals his conviction and sentence. We affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

On the morning of December 28, 2001, defendant was sleeping on the couch at his girlfriend’s apartment in Urbana. She had asked him to leave, but he refused, so she called her brother,…