| This bill defines "habitual violent offender" as a person who |
| has 3 convictions for certain violent offenses including murder, |
| felony murder, manslaughter, aggravated assault, elevated |
| aggravated assault, gross sexual assault, sexual abuse of a |
| minor, unlawful sexual contact, sexual exploitation of a minor, |
| kidnapping, criminal restraint, burglary, robbery, arson, any |
| other offense involving the actual or threatened use of a deadly |
| weapon or dangerous instrument or the intentional or knowing |
| infliction of serious physical harm upon another person. A |
| habitual violent offender must be sentenced to mandatory life |
| imprisonment without probation or any other form of release from |
| confinement. |