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- Title: People v. Beller
- Author : Supreme Court of Illinois
- Release Date : January 12, 1979
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 60 KB
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Defendant, Stephen T. Beller, was convicted of burglary and felony theft in a jury trial in the circuit court of Williamson County. Before being sentenced, defendant pleaded guilty to three other burglary charges pursuant to a negotiated plea agreement that included a sentence recommendation for all the foregoing offenses and immunity from prosecution with respect to some 70 other burglaries and thefts under investigation. The court sentenced defendant to four terms of 4 to 15 years' imprisonment, the sentences to form consecutive sets of two concurrent sentences each. The appellate court reversed the portion of the judgment which directed that defendant's sentences be consecutive to a previous parole-violation sentence, and otherwise affirmed. (54 Ill. App.3d 1053.) The court rejected defendant's arguments that prosecutorial comments on defendant's failure to offer his exculpatory explanation at the time of his arrest and his failure to call a corroborating witness at trial had violated defendant's privilege against self-incrimination and denied him due process of law. We granted leave to appeal.