Carl Raymond
EDWARDS CO., Ill. - A Grayville man has been sentenced to a year in prison after he has failed to figure out thus far that a person can't just drive around without a driver's license.
Carl Raymond, 56, is the guy who was sentenced yesterday (Tuesday, July 11) to a little bit of time behind bars so that he'd get the message, with Judge William Hudson doing the honors.
And for those who believe a revoked license is a heck of a thing to spend six months (with truth-in-sentencing and all) behind bars over, well, it might be...which should have been the impetus for Mr. Raymond to do whatever it would take to ensure he was driving legally (since that IS a highly-regulated privilege in the state of Illinois), but it wasn't. He has another such felony pending in White County. He caught that one on June 21 of this year; perhaps sensing that Edwards' prosecutor Eric St. Ledger wasn't gonna play when Raymond was up on his Edwards Driving Revoked felony (which he caught in that county November 6, 2015), he just decided to plead to it...especially since he was arrested on another just a little over a month ago, June 6.
He's set for a prelim on the White County case July 24, and it'd be our guess that at some point in time prior to that, he'll ask to enter a plea, the court will accept it, and he'll get another one-year sentence. It might be served consecutively, or concurrently (Denton Aud has been doing a lot of consecutives lately, meaning that when a person is convicted of multiple felonies, instead of lumping his sentences together, he serves them separated, one after the other - consecutive - so that the term behind bars is longer).
Raymond must also pay all costs of the proceedings in Edwards, including mandatory fines, none of which were listed in the material submitted by Edwards authorities.