Champaign man gets 8 more years in prison for aggravated battery
URBANA – A Champaign man already serving a 29-year sentence for residential burglary has had another eight years tacked on to that.
On Friday, Champaign County Judge Heidi Ladd sentenced Perry Hampton, 23, for aggravated battery. Hampton last lived in the 100 block of West Roper Street.
A jury convicted him in January of attacking now-retired corrections officer David Smalley at the downtown Urbana jail on Feb. 4, 2010.
Testimony was that Hampton grabbed Smalley's neck and squeezed until Smalley almost lost consciousness. The incident culminated a day of unruly behavior by Hampton, correctional officers testified.
The attack happened the day after Hampton had been convicted of a residential burglary that occurred in Urbana in November 2009. In that case, Hampton was found guilty of breaking down the door of a 62-year-old blind man's home on North Goodwin Avenue and rummaging through the house while the man and his 4-year-old granddaughter barricaded themselves in a bedroom. The resident held his foot against a door, a gun in his hand, as he called police.
They arrived and arrested Hampton and another man.
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