City of Chicago v. Cotton

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• a court acts without authority when it imposes a sentence in excess of that provided by statute
• statute must be enforced as written and a court may not depart from its plain language by reading into it exceptions, limitations, or conditions not expressed by the legislature
• statute must be enforced as written and a court may not depart from its plain language by reading into it exceptions, limitations, or conditions not expressed by the -15- No. 2--08--0928 legislature

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