People v. Bolyard

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• concluding that it was an abuse of discretion for the court to arbitrarily refuse to consider probation as a possible sentence
• ordering new sentencing hearing when record affirmatively showed, during posttrial proceedings, that trial judge arbitrarily denied probation because defendant “fell within the trial judge’s category of disfavored offenders”
• “Rule 615 does not grant a reviewing court the authority to reduce a sentence of imprisonment to a sentence of probation.”
• “Rule 615 does not grant a reviewing court the authority to reduce a sentence of imprisonment to a sentence of probation.”
• where the record shows the trial judge denied probation because the defendant fell within the judge’s category of disfavored offenders, the defendant is entitled to a new sentencing hearing
• \Rule 615 does not grant a review- ing court the authority to reduce a sentence of imprisonment to a sentence of probation.\

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