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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Rickman finds that the trial court improperly revoked the entire balance of defendant's 10-year suspended sentence for being a felon in possession of a firearm after defendant failed to attend an inpatient drug treatment program. Entrance into a treatment program was a general condition of defendant's suspended sentence rather than a special condition. The trial court's statement to defendant that his sentence would become "unsuspended" and he would have to "do some time in the penitentiary" if he was refused entry into a program for recent drug use did not inform defendant that violation of the condition would require him to serve up to the balance of his original sentence in confinement. The trial court was not authorized to revoke more than two years of defendant's suspended sentence. Reversed.