First case Cook County prosecutors target for resentencing under new push probably won’t be done quickly
Eunice Lyles, mother of Larry Frazier, speaks with family members in the lobby at Cook County Sixth Municipal District Courthouse in Markham following a hearing regarding Frazier's resentencing on March 23, 2022. Frazier was sentenced to 60 years in prison for a 1995 home invasion and burglary. His case was the first to be presented in Cook County court for possible resentencing under a new state law allowing prosecutors to petition for more lenient prison terms in cases of their choosing.
Frazier, 65, was sentenced to 60 years in prison for a 1995 home invasion and burglary. With expected credit for good behavior, he is slated to leave custody in November 2023. A jury convicted Frazier of residential burglary and home invasion after a September 1995 incident when he entered a 63-year-old woman’s apartment, demanded her money and threatened to kill her, according to a summary of the case found in an appeals court ruling.
After court Wednesday, Frazier’s brother Lorenzo Lyles said that his brother was severely injured after the gunshot wound he sustained during the burglary. In a short petition filed last week, prosecutors noted that Frazier has taken steps toward rehabilitation and the victim was not physically harmed.
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