Court Opinion

ID: 9819284
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 06:21:46.650145+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:38:29.736440
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE HOPKINS, dissenting: As much as I find logic in the analysis of the majority, I must respectfully dissent. In examining People v. Arna, 168 Ill. 2d 107, it is clear that the dissent of Justice Nickels makes the same logical analysis as does the majority herein. However, Ama clearly holds that the imposition of concurrent sentences is a void sentence when the offenses are committed in a single course of conduct. The two attempted murders by the defendant Summers are clearly part of a single course of conduct in his effort to steal a car. The position of the majority attempting to define the facts otherwise is more imaginative than real, and the plea should be vacated.