A 29-year-old Missouri man was charged Monday in Clinton County Court with aggravated kidnapping in connection with a 2009 incident for which he had already been imprisoned but was free pending resentencing. Jamil Jaber is free on $25,000 cash bond in the 2009 case that was remanded back to Clinton County Court after his guilty plea in a sexual assault case was withdrawn. The new charge is a Class X felony.

Jaber was charged in February 2009, with Class 1 felony criminal sexual assault and Class X felony aggravated criminal sexual assault resulting in bodily harm.

He pleaded guilty in December 2009 to the Class X charge in exchange for the Class 1 charge being dismissed and was subsequently sentenced to 15 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections.

In August 2012, Jaber unsuccessfully attempted to withdraw his guilty plea, and then filed a motion for a reduction in sentence. The defense claimed the court should not have considered hearsay evidence in deciding the 15-year prison sentence, calling it excessive.

The courts acknowledged if it was not supposed to consider prior similar acts at the sentencing, Jaber would have received a lighter sentence. The defense then filed a notice of appeal.

Jaber was returned to the Clinton County Jail from IDOC and his original $250,000 bail was reinstated. He posted the required 10-percent cash bond in September and was released. He is next scheduled to appear in court January 3 for a preliminary hearing in the new case and status hearing on the original case.