This case presents an excellent vehicle for this Court to resolve a growing conflict in the Illinois Appellate Courts: Whether the seriousness of the offense is the most important factor for a judge to consider in fashioning a defendant's sentence, or whether the seriousness of the offense must be weighed equally with the defendant's history, charecter, rehabilitative potential, and other mitigating and aggravating factors.

Whether the seriousness of the offense is the most important factor for a judge to consider in fashioning a defendant's sentence, or whether the seriousness of the offense must be weighed equally with the defendant's potential, and other mitigating and aggravating factors