State v. Lewis
Annotate this CaseAppellant was convicted of rape, aggravated criminal sodomy, burglary, kidnapping and other charges and was sentenced to five life imprisonment sentences as an aggravated habitual sex offender. The Supreme Court affirmed Appellant’s convictions but vacated his five life sentences and remanded for resentencing, holding that the aggravated habitual sex offender statute did not apply to Appellant because (1) the prior convictions in Appellant’s presentence investigation report all occurred on the same day and in the same case and therefore constituted only a single prior conviction event; and (2) because at the time of Appellant’s crimes the aggravated habitual sex offender statute applied only to Defendants with two prior conviction events, Appellant’s life sentences were illegal.
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