United States of America Ex Rel. William J. Miller v. Kenneth McGinnis & Attorney General of the State of Illinois

COFFEY, Circuit Judge.

The petitioner, William J. Miller, appeals from the decision of the district court granting his habeas corpus petition, and at the same time permitting the state of Illinois to vacate a portion of Miller’s sentence rather than allowing Miller to withdraw his plea of guilty and enter a not guilty plea. Upon a review of the record, we affirm the district court’s decision finding that Miller’s constitutional rights were violated when the trial court failed to inform Miller of the Illinois mandatory supervised release term that must be served in addition to a sentence of…