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· 6/24/1993

People v. Riegle

Citations

  • 615 N.E.2d 1232
  • 246 Ill. App. 3d 270
  • 186 Ill. Dec. 175
  • 1993 Ill. App. LEXIS 934

How courts have described this case

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  • “[N]o prejudice results when a defendant is sentenced within the limits stated to him, even though these statements were understated.”
  • a defendant was not prejudiced by the court’s misinforming him that sentencing range under one count of conviction was 9 to 40 years, even though it was actually 6 to 30 years, as the sentence handed down was only 14 years
  • a defendant was not prejudiced by the court's misinforming him that sentencing range under one count of conviction was 9 to 40 years, even though it was actually 6 to 30 years, as the sentence handed down was only 14 years
  • a defendant was not prejudiced by the court's misinform­ing him that sentencing range under one count of convic­tion was 9 to 40 years, even though it was actually 6 to 30 years, as the sentence handed down was only 14 years
  • a defendant is not prejudiced and his guilty plea is not invalidated when he is sentenced within the range of penalty stated to him at the time of his guilty plea, even if that range is found to be incorrect at the time he is sentenced

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Judges: Lund

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