JEFFERSON COUNTY — A 38-year-old Centralia man was re-sentenced Tuesday in Marion County Court on a 2012 conviction of aggravated criminal sexual assault after the Fifth District Appellate Court tossed out his 30-year sentence based upon a procedural error.

Brian Minton was re-sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison on the case, which meant with credit for time served his sentence had been completed. He was then returned to the Department of Corrections, and after being processed he will be released to parole.

Minton was originally sentenced on both a Class X felony charge of aggravated criminal sexual assault as well as Class X home invasion. However, due to the victim in the case having since passed away and no other testimony available, the state entered into a plea agreement dismissing the home invasion charge in exchange for a guilty plea to sexual assault and a 10-year sentence.

Information from the original case shows Minton entered the victim’s home in the early hours of New Year’s Day 2012 where he assaulted her while she was in bed and threatened to kill her if she didn’t comply with his demands for sex.

Minton was dragging her off the bed by her hair as Centralia police officers were making their way up the stairs.

Despite his original guilty plea and sentence being overturned, Minton will still have to register as a sex offender for life and pay $16,000 in fines and restitution to the victim’s survivors.