People v. Turner

── People v. Turner ── Court: Appellate Court of Illinois Date: April 24, 2026 Category: General NOTICE 2026 IL App (5th) 241217-U NOTICE Decision filed 04/24/26. The This order was filed under text of this decision may be NOS. 5-24-1217, 5-24-1222, 5-24-1228 cons. Supreme Court Rule 23 and is changed or corrected prior to not precedent except in the the filing of a Petition for IN THE limited circumstances allowed Rehearing or the disposition of under Rule 23(e)(1). the same. APPELLATE COURT OF ILLINOIS FIFTH DISTRICT ______________________________________________________________________________ THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, ) Appeal from the ) Circuit Court of Plaintiff-Appellee, ) Champaign County. ) v. ) Nos. 20-CF-742, 21-CF-1071, ) 21-CF-1520 PRINTISS V. TURNER, ) ) Honorable Randall B. Rosenbaum, Defendant-Appellant. ) Judge, presiding. ______________________________________________________________________________ JUSTICE BOLLINGER delivered the judgment of the court. Justices Vaughan and Hackett concurred in the judgment. ORDER ¶1 Held: We affirm defendant’s sentence where the circuit court properly weighed and considered aggravating and mitigating factors. ¶2 Defendant Prentiss V. Turner entered a plea of guilty in three separate cases to two counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and one count of aggravated battery with a firearm. He was subsequently sentenced to a cumulative term of 26 years of incarceration. On appeal, he contends that the circuit court did not consider, as a mitigating factor, his potential for rehabilitation. For the reasons that follow, we disagree and affirm the circuit court’s sentence. ¶3 I. BACKGROUND ¶4 On July 8, 2020, defendant Prentiss V. Turner was charged by information with four counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon (720 ILCS 5/24-16(a)(1), (a)(3)(C), and (a)(3)(A) (West 1 2018)), in Champaign County case No. 2020-CF-742 (case 742). The charges alleged that on July 8, 2020, defendant was carrying in a vehicle, without a valid Firearm Owner’s Identification (FOID) Card, a Ruger 9-millimeter handgun, a Taurus G2c 9-millimeter handgun, a Sig Sauer 9- millimeter SP 2022 handgun, and a SCCY CPX2 9-millimeter handgun, while he was not on his own land with the firearms uncased, loaded, and immediately accessible. ¶5 On September 9, 2021, defendant was charged by information with four counts of first degree murder (720 ILCS 5/9-1(a)(1), (a)(2) (West 2020)) in relation to an incident that occurred on October 8, 2020, in Champaign County case No. 2021-CF-1071 (case 1071). It was alleged that on that date, defendant discharged a firearm that caused the death of Martini Morrow. The charges carried a mandatory 20-60 years’ imprisonment with an additional mandatory 25-year firearm enhancement. (730 ILCS 5/5-8-1(a)(1)(d)(iii) (West 2018)). ¶6 On December 14, 2021, defendant was charged by information with one count of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon (720 ILCS 5/24-16(a)(1), (a)(3)(C), (a)(3)(A) (West 2020)) in relation to an incident that occu