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Illinois Supreme Court Affirms Supervised Release Period Despite Sentencing Omission

Loaded on Aug. 28, 2015 by Derek Gilna published in Prison Legal News September, 2015, page 39
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole, Parole Conditions. Location: Illinois.

Illinois Supreme Court Affirms Supervised Release Period Despite Sentencing Omission

by Derek Gilna

The Illinois Supreme Court has affirmed the imposition of a period of mandatory supervised release (MSR) that was inadvertently omitted from a sentence by the trial court. Billy McChriston was convicted in 2004 of unlawful delivery of ...

 

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