Illinois Appellate Court
Criminal Court
Sentencing
(Court opinion corrected 9/28/10.) Defendant pled guilty to intimidation and criminal damage to property, pursuant to partially negotiated plea; Defendant repeatedly stabbed the top of her boyfriend's ex-girlfriend's convertible, and waved a knife at them both, and was sentenced to concurrent prison terms of 10 and 6 years. Court did not abuse its discretion in length of sentences imposed, as it considered aggravating factors of Defendant's criminal history, including previous altercation where she set fire to boyfriend's ex-girlfriend's car, and mitigating factors that Defendant and her boyfriend have a newborn child. Court did not err in ordering sentences to run consecutive to any punishment handed out for MSR violation in an unrelated case, even though such punishment had not yet been ordered. Order for restitution vacated as court never admonished Defendant that she could be required to pay restitution, and her sentence was more onerous than the admonishments indicated that it would be. (HOLDRIDGE, concurring; SCHMIDT, concurring in part and dissenting in part.)