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Jurors weren told anything about the range of punishments for each charge. The judge did tell them that whether one canada goose coats on sale charge might carry a greater or lesser sentence shouldn factor at all into their decisions.
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Greenberg said prison conditions for an officer, like Van Dyke, could be rougher than for average convicts. “He will probably be in a cell by himself,” Greenberg said. “It will be very hard time.” That may have already started. At prosecutors request, Van Dyke bond was revoked minutes after the verdicts were announced and Judge Gaughan ordered he be held in jail pending sentencing. He stood up from the defense table, then put his arms behind his back as two deputies led him away.
I am not an expert on Illinois sentencing law, but presuming this article has the law corrected, I am struck that the mandatory minimum prison term for second degree murder in the state is 50% less than mandatory minimum for aggravated battery with a firearm. It is also notable and telling that if the sentencing judge here were permitted and inclined to run the various sentences canada goose consecutively rather than concurrently, the defendant here would be facing 100 years in prison as the applicable mandatory minimum. But if the crimes are found to be “merged” under Illinois law, four years could become the minimum and 20 years the max.
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