People v. Hibbler

2019 IL App (4th) 160897, 129 N.E.3d 755, 432 Ill. Dec. 537
CourtAppellate Court of Illinois
DecidedJune 7, 2019
DocketNO. 4-16-0897, 4-16-0898 cons.
StatusUnpublished
Cited by55 cases

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Bluebook
People v. Hibbler, 2019 IL App (4th) 160897, 129 N.E.3d 755, 432 Ill. Dec. 537 (Ill. Ct. App. 2019).

Opinion

JUSTICE STEIGMANN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion.

*541 ¶ 1 In September 2015, defendant, Terrell Lasean Hibbler, pleaded guilty to threatening a public official ( 720 ILCS 5/12-9(a) (West 2014)) in exchange for a sentence of 30 months' probation. While on probation, in October 2015, defendant was indicted for armed robbery and resisting a peace officer. Id. §§ 18-2(a)(2), 31-1(a-7). The State also filed a petition to revoke his probation.

¶ 2 In August 2016, a jury convicted defendant of armed robbery and resisting a peace officer, and the trial court granted the State's petition to revoke probation. In September 2016, the court sentenced defendant to 30 years in prison for armed robbery, 3 years for resisting a peace officer, and 5 years for threatening a public official and ordered all sentences to run concurrently.

¶ 3 Defendant appeals, arguing (1) the trial court erred at the sentencing hearing by considering defendant's conduct in jail based upon information contained within the presentence investigation report (PSI), (2) the trial court erred by imposing a sentence that constituted a double enhancement, (3) the trial court erred by ordering restitution without stating whether it was to be paid in a lump sum or by installments, (4) trial counsel was ineffective because he failed to challenge the restitution amount in the PSI, and (5) the trial court erred when sentencing defendant after revoking his probation because the sentence was based on his subsequent conduct instead of the original offense for which he had been placed on probation. We agree only with defendant's third argument and remand regarding restitution. We reject all of defendant's other arguments and otherwise affirm the trial court's judgment.

¶ 4 I. BACKGROUND

¶ 5 A. The Charges

¶ 6 In August 2015, defendant was indicted on one count of threatening a public official. Id. § 12-9(a). In September 2015, as part of a negotiated plea agreement, defendant pleaded guilty to threatening a public official in exchange for a sentence of 30 months' probation.

¶ 7 In October 2015, defendant was indicted for armed robbery and resisting a peace officer. Id. §§ 18-2(a)(2), 31-1(a-7). Later that month, the State filed a petition to revoke his probation, alleging defendant violated the terms of his probation by committing the offenses set forth in the October 2015 indictment.

¶ 8 B. The Trials

¶ 9 In August 2016, the trial court conducted a jury trial on the armed robbery and resisting charges. The court simultaneously *760 *542 conducted a bench trial on the petition to revoke.

¶ 10 Lashkmibhargava Ravi testified he was working at the Blooming Food Mart (Food Mart), a gas station convenience store located in Bloomington, Illinois, on the night of October 3, 2015. Ravi stated that defendant entered the store, pointed a gun at him, and demanded the money in the cash register. Ravi instructed another employee to give defendant the money, which he estimated to be about $ 3600. Defendant took the money and ran out of the store. Ravi called the police to report the robbery and later identified defendant as the robber after police took him to a location not far from the store where defendant had been arrested.

¶ 11 The State played a surveillance video that depicted the events Ravi described for the jury. The video also showed defendant pointing the gun at Ravi and the other employee and placing the money in his front left pocket.

¶ 12 Bloomington police officer Joseph Rizzi testified he was dispatched to a home, which happened to be near the Food Mart, in response to a reported fight in the residence. Rizzi stated that, as he approached the home, he saw a black male running through the backyard and stopped him to inquire about the fight. Rizzi identified the man as defendant in open court.

¶ 13 Rizzi testified that defendant claimed he saw the fight and was running through the backyard to avoid it. As Rizzi spoke with him, defendant started to back away. Rizzi then noticed cash bulging out of defendant's left jeans pocket, which defendant was trying to stuff into his pocket. Rizzi also noticed defendant's hand was moving toward his waistband generally. Rizzi then heard over his radio about an armed robbery at the nearby Food Mart. (Rizzi explained that Bloomington police officers wear earpieces to listen to information over their radios so that the public cannot hear.) Rizzi stated that defendant was wearing clothing that was identical with the description of the robbery suspect.

¶ 14 Rizzi then attempted to detain defendant, but defendant started to run away. Rizzi grabbed defendant's shirt, and a struggle ensued. After the two tumbled down a hill in the yard, Rizzi attempted to secure defendant's hands, and defendant fought to get away. Another officer on the scene came to Rizzi's aid. The two eventually arrested defendant.

¶ 15 Rizzi testified that he had a cut on his nose, elbow, and both knees as a result of the struggle. Rizzi noted that his bulletproof vest, which was secured with Velcro on either side of his torso, came loose during the fight and was twisted in such a way that it no longer offered him any meaningful protection. (Rizzi also explained that, in part because of incidents such as this one, the Bloomington Police Department now used vests secured by zippers.) Because Rizzi believed defendant was the armed robber, he described himself as "[e]xtremely[ ] [t]errified" during the struggle.

¶ 16 The State presented testimony from multiple other officers who arrived at the scene. Collectively, they recovered $ 2685 in cash from defendant's jeans pocket and a handgun from the area where the struggle occurred.

¶ 17 Detective Tim Power, who interviewed defendant at the Bloomington police station, testified that defendant said his fingerprints would be on the gun because someone paid him $ 200 to hold it. The gun had live ammunition in it, but the gun's chamber did not contain a bullet when the police examined it.

¶ 18 The jury found defendant guilty of armed robbery and resisting a peace officer.

*761 *543 The trial court found the State had proved its petition to revoke defendant's probation by a preponderance of the evidence.

¶ 19 C. The Sentencing Hearing

¶ 20 In September 2016, the trial court conducted a sentencing hearing. The PSI was filed seven days prior to the hearing. The PSI contained a list of rule violations defendant committed while in the county jail and a brief description of the factual circumstances of those violations. The PSI also stated that "the firm * * * representing the [Food Mart] Insurer [was] requesting restitution in the amount of $ 4,359.92," and the City of Bloomington was requesting $ 280.37 in restitution for Rizzi's medical treatment.

¶ 21 1. Proceedings Relating to the PSI

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