Court Opinion

ID: 9725544
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 11:52:17.960764+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:25:16.386987
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Supplemental Opinion Upon Rehearing PER CURIAM: We have allowed defendant’s petition for rehearing, to review his contention that we erred in holding that defendant could not be given credit for the period of incarceration commencing on March 7, 1963, and terminating with his release from Menard on September 1, 1963.  We have considered the case of People ex rel. Gregory v. Pate, 31 Ill2d 592, 203 NE2d 425, and in view of the Supreme Court’s holding that the provisions of section 119-3 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (c 38, § 119-3, Ill Rev Stats 1965) apply retroactively, we conclude that we erred in our prior holding, and defendant is entitled to credit for the entire period of incarceration between the dates of March 1, 1963, and September 1, 1963.  We have also reconsidered our prior order, wherein we reduced the sentence imposed upon defendant to not less than one year, nor more than one year and one day. Since filing the original opinion in this case, we have been given the opportunity to examine excerpts from an article prepared for publication in the Fall Issue of the University of Illinois Law Forum by Honorable James C. Craven of the Appellate Court for the Fourth District, and the writings and opinions therein discussed. We conclude that the imposition of a sentence which, in effect, makes the parole eligibility date the same as the release date is violative of the spirit and intent of the statutory provisions for indeterminate sentences.  If a reasonable spread is provided between the minimum and maximum sentence, the Parole and Pardon Board is in a better position to persuade a prisoner to obey institutional rules of conduct, and to participate in education and rehabilitation programs, and in the event of release prior to service of the maximum sentence, can exercise parole supervision. We conclude, therefore, that we erred in modifying the sentence in the manner set out in the original opinion, and deem it advisable to modify the sentence to not less than one year, and not more than one year and 180 days. For the reasons herein stated, the judgment and sentence of the Circuit Court of Macon County are modified to provide that the sentence imposed on defendant be reduced to provide for confinement in the Illinois State Penitentiary for a period of not less than one year nor more than one year and 180 days, and subject to the condition that defendant be given credit for the periods of incarceration between the dates of March 1 and September 1, 1963, and between the dates of November 30 and December 23, 1965. As so modified, the judgment of the Circuit Court of Macon County is affirmed and the cause remanded with directions that a mittimus issue in conformance with this opinion. Judgment modified and affirmed and cause remanded with directions.