Chief Justice BILANDIC delivered the opinion of the court:
The defendants in this consolidated appeal were separately tried and convicted of various offenses. The defendants were then sentenced as Class X offenders under section 5-5-3(c)(8) of the Unified Code of Corrections (Ill.Rev.Stat.1989, ch. 38, par. 1005-5-3(c)(8)). The defendants appealed, claiming that their sentences must be vacated because the State did not give them notice in the charging instrument that...
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