When you enter the criminal justice system, Cook County Judge John Lyke occasionally told defendants during his years handling bond hearings, “Sometimes you don’t start with a single, you hit a grand slam.”
Andre Holland is one of those grand slam sluggers.
In October 2023, he had never been arrested before, officials said. A spotless record at the age of 20 is a rarity for people of that age appearing at 26th and California. Despite his previously clean slate, Holland has now been sentenced to 36 years in prison for his first criminal conviction, putting him behind bars until at least May 2054…