Milligan sentenced to prison for Aggravated Domestic Battery

[October 03, 2018]  On September 4, 2018, Daniel E. Milligan was sentenced pursuant to a fully negotiated plea agreement. Milligan pleaded guilty to Aggravated Domestic Battery, a class 2 felony, and was sentenced to 8 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections and will serve 4 years of mandatory supervised release (formerly known as parole).

The conviction arises out of an incident that occurred in Latham on June 17, 2017.

Logan County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a dispatch where Megan Jinks had come to a neighbor’s front door at approximately 3:25 a.m. Megan Jinks had come seeking safety from her fiancé, Daniel Milligan.

Megan Jinks reported to deputies that Milligan had been consuming alcoholic beverages earlier that night. An argument occurred and, during the course of that argument, Milligan grabbed Megan Jinks’s throat impeding her ability to breathe. Megan Jinks stated that she lost consciousness momentarily.

After regaining consciousness, she was able to free herself from Milligan and run to the neighbor. By the time deputies arrived at the location, Milligan had fled the scene.

Jonathan C. Wright
Logan County State’s Attorney