A state appeals panel on Tuesday reinstated a defendant’s armed habitual criminal conviction 16 months after initially vacating it.In order to be convicted as an armed habitual criminal, a defendant must have been convicted of two qualifying offenses. But one of those qualifiers Marchello McGee was convicted on was voided by a set of Illinois Supreme Court rulings on guns.The 1st District Appellate Court in February 2016 initially held that, because the underlying aggravated unlawful use of a weapon law was declared …