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. | ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) | Appeal from 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,