82 Ill. App. 3d 853 - People v. Odom’s Empirical Analysis

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15 state decisions

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1. “"One purpose of criminal sanctions is to rehabilitate offenders. The sentence is also to deter other criminal conduct. If the object and purpose of our criminal laws are to be realized, the relationship between the conduct and the sentence or punishment has to be such as not to bring the system of the administration of criminal justice into serious question, if not disrepute. If the sentence imposed is so out of proportion to the offense as to beget public indignation, it is counterproductive. We conclude that this sentence is in that category.” Odom, 82 Ill. App. 3d at 855 , 403 N.E.2d at 299 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 271 Ill. App. 3d 966 - People v. Christy