Court Opinion

ID: 9718888
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 07:37:08.650143+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:03.281031
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE INGLIS, specially concurring: I agree with the majority that, under the current state of the law, the defendant has waived any objection to his sentence by failing to file a postsentencing motion as the law requires. I also agree that the defendant has no other avenue in which he could have preserved his sentencing issues and that the supreme court rules do not provide such an admonition. Rule 605(a) requires the trial court to advise the defendant of his right to appeal, to request the clerk to prepare and file a notice of appeal, to be furnished with a transcript of the proceedings at his trial, and to have counsel appointed on appeal; it also requires the court to inform the defendant that his right to appeal will be preserved only if a notice of appeal is filed in the trial court within 30 days from the date of the sentence. The rule does not require the trial court to provide an admonition regarding the defendant’s obligation to preserve sentencing issues on appeal. 145 Ill. 2d R. 605(a). Highlighting all of these admonitions and omitting an admonition that the defendant must file a postsentencing motion in the trial court in order to preserve sentencing issues on appeal, as provided in section 5 — 8—1(c) (730 ILCS 5/5 — 8—1(c) (West 1996)), only serve to mislead the defendant. I find this to be unjust and respectfully suggest that the supreme court review Rule 605(a).