{"id":960,"date":"2010-09-28T08:24:31","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T14:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/blog\/?p=960"},"modified":"2010-09-28T08:24:31","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T14:24:31","slug":"rare-time-cut-ordered-due-to-trial-courts-neglect-of-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/28\/rare-time-cut-ordered-due-to-trial-courts-neglect-of-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"RARE &#8220;TIME CUT&#8221; ORDERED DUE TO TRIAL COURT&#8217;S NEGLECT OF DUTY"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Defendant Laquita Calhoun and some friends beat to death one Alonzo Jones because they thought Jones had molested Calhoun&#8217;s child.\u00a0\u00a0 Associate\u00a0Judge Stanley Sacks sentenced Laquita Calhoun to the maximum sentence of 60 years IDOC for murder and 7 years consecutive for kidnapping after a jury trial,\u00a0finding that he had &#8220;never seen a more horrendous vicious crime than this one.&#8221;\u00a0 In a thoughtful opinion by JUSTICE JOSEPH GORDON,\u00a0our Appellate Court ordered a new sentencing hearing, and in a rare statement, recommended that a proper sentence on remand be &#8220;the minimal sentencing level for first degree murder.&#8221;\u00a0 The Appellate Court\u00a0implied\u00a0that\u00a0the trial court \u00a0had &#8220;neglected its duty to consider the relevant mitigating factors.&#8221; \u00a0These factors included &#8220;defendant&#8217;s undeniably strong provocation, her lack of any venial criminal record, and the manifest unlikelihood of any repetition of this crime&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 Click this link to read the case of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.il.us\/court\/Opinions\/AppellateCourt\/2010\/1stDistrict\/September\/1070266.pdf\">People v <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Laquita Calhoun<\/span>, No. 1-07-0266, First Dist., Fifth Div., 9\/10\/2010.<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant Laquita Calhoun and some friends beat to death one Alonzo Jones because they thought Jones had molested Calhoun&#8217;s child.\u00a0\u00a0 Associate\u00a0Judge Stanley Sacks sentenced Laquita Calhoun to the maximum sentence of 60 years IDOC for murder and 7 years consecutive for kidnapping after a jury trial,\u00a0finding that he had &#8220;never seen a more horrendous vicious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}