People v. Donelson

This case presents question as to whether defendant is entitled to withdraw his guilty plea to charges of murder, home invasion and aggravated criminal sexual assault where defendant pleaded guilty in exchange for statutorily unauthorized concurrent sentences of 50, 30 and 30 years. Appellate Court found that although instant concurrent sentences were void, guilty plea itself was not void since defendant could receive proper sentence that totaled 50 years, and that appropriate remedy would be remand for new sentence. In his petition for leave to appeal, defendant argued that he is entitled to vacatur of guilty plea under People v. White, 2011 IL 109616.