Opinion ID: 3135073
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Text: On September 22, 1997, defendant and another man were arrested after fleeing from a car pursued by police in connection with a shooting incident. Two loaded semiautomatic weapons, a .22-caliber handgun and a .25-caliber handgun, were found in the car, and an additional ammunition clip containing .22-caliber bullets. On October 8, 1997, an indictment was filed, charging defendant with, among other crimes, four counts of unlawful possession of weapons by a felon (720 ILCS 5/24–1.1 (West 1996)) and possession of a firearm without a valid FOID card (430 ILCS 65/2(a)(1) (West 1996)). The unlawful possession of weapons charges were based on defendant’s possession of a .22-caliber handgun, a .25-caliber handgun, ammunition for the .25-caliber handgun, and ammunition for the .22-caliber handgun. A bench trial was conducted on April 7, 1998. The trial court found defendant guilty on all five counts. Defendant was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment on each count, to run concurrently. On appeal, defendant argued that his multiple convictions violated the one-act, one-crime doctrine and that the trial court relied on several improper factors in determining his sentence. The appellate court affirmed defendant’s four convictions for unlawful possession of weapons by a felon and vacated defendant’s FOID card violation conviction based on the one-act, one-crime doctrine. The appellate court also vacated defendant’s sentences based on the trial court’s consideration of an improper sentencing factor and remanded the cause for a new sentencing hearing. 344 Ill. App. 3d 663. Justice McLaren dissented in part, asserting that convicting defendant for unlawful possession of weapons by a felon, and then also convicting him for the ammunition that was contained in the firearms, violated the one-act, one-crime doctrine. 344 Ill. App. 3d at 674-78 (McLaren, J., dissenting). We allowed defendant’s petition for leave to appeal. 177 Ill. 2d R. 315(a).