This case presents question as to whether trial court properly denied defendant’s motion to reconsider his 9-year sentence on driving with revoked license charge that was imposed under section 5-4.5-95(b) of Code of Corrections, where said sentence was based, in part, on finding that defendant was Class X offender, and where trial court had failed to apply amendment to section 5-4.5-95(b), which made said section inapplicable to defendant’s case and which took effect after date of original sentence, but was in effect at time of trial court’s ruling on motion to reconsider sentence. Appellate Court, in affirming trial court, found that amendment was inapplicable to defendant’s case, where defendant was originally sentenced well before July 2021 amendment to section 5-4.5-95(b) became effective.
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