SPRINGFIELD, Ill., April 28 -- The Illinois Courts Office issued the following opinion on March 28:
1. Held: (1) The defendant's prior conviction for residential burglary was properly alleged as a predicate for charging him with being an armed habitual criminal. (2) The record was inadequate to resolve the claim that defense counsel was ineffective for failing to move to suppress the gun.
2. Following a jury trial, defendant Cortez Herrion was found guilty of one count of armed habitual criminal and sentenced to nine years in prison. On appeal, he argues that his prior conviction for residential burglary, which he committed when he was 17 years old, cannot serve as a predicate for armed habitual criminal because an intervening expansion i...