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Ganci v. Washington

Case Date: 01/17/2001
Court: 4th District Appellate
Docket No: 4-00-0100 Rel

January 17, 2001

NO. 4-00-0100

IN THE APPELLATE COURT

OF ILLINOIS

FOURTH DISTRICT

 

JOSEPH GANCI,
     Plaintiff-Appellant,
     v.
ODIE WASHINGTON, Director, Illinois
Department of Corrections, JAMES
WILLIAMS, JOANNE S. SHEA, ANNE TAYLOR,
WILLIAM HARRIS, BARBARA HUBBARD,
HERBERT BROWN, CLYDE BROOKS, JAMES
DONAHUE, MILTON MAXWELL, JORGE MONTES,
WILLIAM WALSH, DONALD YOST, and THE
ILLINOIS PRISONER REVIEW BOARD,
     Defendants-Appellees.		 )
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Circuit Court of
Sangamon County
No. 98MR26





Honorable
Thomas R. Appleton,
Judge Presiding.

JUSTICE GARMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff Joseph Ganci is a prisoner at the LoganCorrectional Center in the Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC). Based onevents of June 8, 1974, he was convicted in April 1976 and is serving concurrentsentences of 33 to 100 years for murder and 11 to 33 years for attempt (murder).On June 20, 1996, Ganci filed a complaint in Cook County circuit court againstdefendants, Odie Washington, then Director of DOC, the Illinois Prisoner ReviewBoard (Board), and its individual members alleging that the Board hadunconstitutionally increased his sentence in violation of the ex postfacto clauses contained in the United States Constitution (U.S. Const.,art. I,