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  "name": "The People of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Robert Louis Stanton, Defendant-Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "People v. Stanton",
  "decision_date": "1972-04-12",
  "docket_number": "No. 69-73",
  "first_page": "936",
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      "cite": "4 Ill. App. 3d 936"
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
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    "parties": [
      "The People of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Robert Louis Stanton, Defendant-Appellant."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE GEORGE J. MORAN\ndelivered the opinion of the court:\nDefendant was convicted of burglary (Ill. Rev. Stat., ch. 38, par. 19 \u2014 1) in a jury trial in Madison County, Illinois, and sentenced to a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 20 years in the Illinois State Penitentiary.\nDefendant was apprehended by two Madison County Deputy Sheriffs in the Mellville Dairy Store in Godfrey, Illinois in the early morning hours of July 1, 1968, in possession of a roll of bills bound by a rubber-band, amounting to approximately $84. One of the night clerks at the store testified that after closing she placed some money in the left-hand drawer of a desk and rolled it in a rubber band. The owner of the dairy testified that a check of the night\u2019s receipts revealed that $87.44 was missing.\nDefendant claims that the State committed reversible error in cross-examining him on prior convictions and in commenting on his prior convictions in its argument to the jury and that the State failed to prove him guilty of the crime charged in the indictment.\nWe find defendant\u2019s contentions to be without merit; that no error of law appears in the trial of the case; that an opinion would have no precedential value and that the evidence in this case is not so unsatisfactory as to leave a reasonable doubt as to defendant\u2019s guilt.\nTherefore, in compliance with Supreme Court Rule 23, we affirm the judgment of the trial court of Madison County finding the defendant guilty of burglary.\nDefendant also contends that his sentence was excessive. His criminal record commenced in 1942 and included four prior sentences for burglary. The trial judge must have believed that the defendant\u2019s prior record was such that it negated the possibility of rehabilitation. However, even though the chances of defendant\u2019s rehabilitation seem doubtful, we believe that a minimum sentence should have been imposed which would still recognize the possibility of rehabilitation.\nFor the reasons given, defendant\u2019s conviction of the crime of burglary is affirmed and defendant\u2019s sentence is reduced to a minimum of five years and a maximum of 15 years in the Illinois State Penitentiary. As modified the judgment of tire Circuit Court of Madison County is affirmed.\nJudgment modified and affirmed.\nEBERSPACHER, P. J., and CREBS, J., concur.",
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        "author": "Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE GEORGE J. MORAN"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Paul Bradley, of Defender Project, of Mt. Vernon, (Kenneth L. Jones, of counsel,) for appellant.",
      "R. W. Griffith, State\u2019s Attorney, of Edwardsville, for the People."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "The People of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Robert Louis Stanton, Defendant-Appellant.\n(No. 69-73;\nFifth District\nApril 12, 1972.\nPaul Bradley, of Defender Project, of Mt. Vernon, (Kenneth L. Jones, of counsel,) for appellant.\nR. W. Griffith, State\u2019s Attorney, of Edwardsville, for the People."
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