In People v. Mendez, No. 2--07--0229, 387 Ill. App. 3d 311, 900 N.E.2d 299, (2008), after confirming that the defendant had agreed to serve a 12-year prison term for aggravated battery with a firearm, the trial court stated: "'The way this was charged, it is a Class X felony, which means that its possible penalties could have been between six and thirty years in the Department of Corrections with three years of mandatory supervised release or what was known as parole.'" Mendez, at 2. The Court reasoned that the emphasized language was misleading because it "suggested that these were the possible penalties had the circumstances been other than what they were, i.e., in the absence of a plea and in the event of a conviction at trial." Mendez, at 10.