Illinois Appellate Court
Criminal Court
Sentencing
State appealed from order reducing maximum commitment period for Defendant, who was found not guilty by reason of insanity on two battery charges. Statutory provision requiring calculation of an insanity acquitee's maximum commitment period to reflect "the maximum sentence of the most serious crime for which he has been acquitted" is a singular phrase, and must not be calculated so as to incorporate consecutive sentences that would have been imposed had Defendant been convicted on multiple charges. Thus, court correctly reduced maximum commitment period to reflect only one of the two battery charges for which she was acquitted.(DELORT and HARRIS, concurring.)