# People v. Pastewski

> Illinois Supreme Court · February 17, 1995 · 164 Ill. 2d 189

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9714227

## Case

- **Full name:** The PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. STANLEY PASTEWSKI, Appellee; THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. MOSES WARFIELD, Appellee
- **Court:** Illinois Supreme Court
- **Decided:** February 17, 1995
- **Citations:** 164 Ill. 2d 189; 207 Ill. Dec. 316; 647 N.E.2d 278; 1995 Ill. LEXIS 52
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Heiple
- **Judges:** Heiple, Miller, Freeman, Harrison
- **Cited by:** 31 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- stating that the 7 district court’s application of an enhancement “in determining an [incompetent 8 defendant’s] maximum period of commitment [does not] impermissibly alter[] the 9 nature of his confinement, or introduce[] into the commitment an invalid punitive 10 purpose”
- stating that the district court’s application of an enhancement “in determining an [incompetent defendant’s] maximum period of commitment [does not] impermissibly alter[] the nature of his confinement, or introduce[] into the commitment an invalid punitive purpose”
- noting that the trial court lacks "discretion to select, as a maximum period of commitment, a time other than the longest span provided by statute"

## Opinion text

JUSTICE HEIPLE, specially concurring:
I agree with the majority of the court that the decision in Palmer must be limited to the question before the court in that case. However, for the reasons stated in my dissent in Palmer (148 Ill. 2d at 94-95), I reiterate my position that Palmer was incorrectly decided.

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