By Edith Brady-Lunny
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PONTIAC — A man once housed in the state’s “supermax” prison and sentenced to 97 years for his multiple assaults on guards at Pontiac Correctional Center could be released soon under a new sentencing order proposed jointly by his lawyers and the Livingston County state’s attorney.
Anthony Gay has been in the state’s correctional system since 1994 when he was sentenced to seven years for a Rock Island County robbery. Before Gay completed that sentence, he began to pick up a series of 17 separate aggravated battery cases against correctional officers at the Pontiac prison.
The sentences handed down between 2000 and 2004 all involved incidents in 2000 and 2001.
Livingston County judges ordered Gay, now 38, to serve the sentences, ranging from three to eight years, consecutively, or one after the other.
Livingston County State’s Attorney Seth Uphoff said Wednesday that he agreed to the new calculation after conducting his own research and confirming the results with the state appellate prosecutor’s office.
“The number one ethical duty of a prosecutor is to see that justice is done and that the law is applied equally,” he said. “In the case of Mr. Gay, after exhaustive research of the motion filed on his behalf to correct his sentence, it was learned that the nuances of the complicated sentencing laws demand that certain of his sentences be served concurrently, while others must be served consecutively.”
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