People v. Seymore

The Illinois Supreme Court considered the question of whether the appellate court erred in finding that defendant was entitled to good-behavior credit under the County Jail Good Behavior Allowance Act after the circuit court sanctioned the defendant with 30 days’ imprisonment for violating the electronic monitoring of his pretrial release. The supreme court reversed the appellate court, explaining that the 30-day imprisonment was not a sentence under the Act and, as a result, defendant was not entitled to good-conduct credit against that sanction. (NEVILLE, OVERSTREET, HOLDER WHITE, CUNNINGHAM, ROCHFORD, and O’BRIEN, concurring)