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| | 201: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 May 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In this McLean County case, the Illinois Supreme Court upheld a conviction for unlawful possession of cannabis with intent to deliver imposed on a defendant who was a passenger in a vehicle which was stopped because of what police claimed was an obstructed license plate. He was sentenced to 120 days in jail and 30 months of probation. | | | | Date Created: | 05-21-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 116223 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070492 Original UID: 188763 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 202: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 May 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | A statutory post conviction proceeding can, potentially, consist of three stages. At the first stage, the circuit court may summarily dismiss if it finds the petition frivolous or patently without merit. | | | | Date Created: | 05-21-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 113135 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070495 Original UID: 188766 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 203: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 May 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | A Kane County jury convicted this defendant of the April 2009 hold-up of a gas station in Aurora, and the circuit court imposed a 20-year prison term for aggravated robbery. | | | | Date Created: | 05-21-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 116799 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070496 Original UID: 188767 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 204: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 May 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2005, this 17-year-old defendant entered an open guilty plea to attempted first degree murder and home invasion. His 2007 motion to withdraw his plea as not knowing and voluntary because of counsels allegedly deficient advice and representation was denied. | | | | Date Created: | 05-21-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117695 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070498 Original UID: 188769 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 205: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 May 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The circuit court of Du Page County found the clause violated defendants equal protection rights and declared it unconstitutional as applied to him. | | | | Date Created: | 05-21-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 118255 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070502 Original UID: 188773 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 206: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 June 18 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The defendant sought review in the appellate court and there, for the first time, alleged that the trial court had committed plain error by erroneously defining reasonable doubt in response to an inquiry from the jury. The appellate court ordered a new trial, but the Illinois Supreme Court did not agree with what the appellate court had done. | | | | Date Created: | 06-18-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117934 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070504 Original UID: 188775 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 207: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 September 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2012, this 23-year-old defendant, who was certified to teach grades 6 through 12, could substitute teach for grades kindergarten through 12, and had been teaching part-time at two schools was indicted in the circuit court of Cook County for criminal acts committed when he was 14 or 15 years old. | | | | Date Created: | 09-24-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117669 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070596 Original UID: 188880 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 208: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 September 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | A Rock Island jury convicted this Cordova police sergeant of intimidation for threatening to refuse to respond to certain 911 calls. At his 2012 sentencing hearing, the circuit court imposed two years of probation with conditions, including the requirement that he become current in his court-ordered child support, which was then 3 years in arrears. | | | | Date Created: | 09-24-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 118347 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070612 Original UID: 188898 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 209: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 October 8 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Will County defendant was successful in winning the dismissal of an indictment charging him with possession of the controlled substance ketamine with intent to deliver. In this decision, the Illinois Supreme Court held that the circuit court had not abused its discretion in so ruling because the defendants substantive due process rights were violated after he entered into a cooperation agreement with Romeoville police that he would not be charged if he assisted in the apprehension of two drug suspects, which he did. | | | | Date Created: | 10-08-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 118278 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070674 Original UID: 188973 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 210: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 November 19 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Cook County sex offender was convicted in a jury trial of two counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault based on separate acts of oral and vaginal contact with the victim in 2009. | | | | Date Created: | 11-19-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 116916 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071446 Original UID: 189424 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 211: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 November 19 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In April of 2013, Juan Williams was arrested for possessing a firearm while in an automobile on a public street in Chicago. At the time, he did not have a currently valid Firearm Owners Identification Card. | | | | Date Created: | 11-19-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117470 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071447 Original UID: 189425 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 212: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 November 19 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE KILBRIDE delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Garman and Justices Freeman, Thomas, Karmeier, Burke, and Theis concurred in the judgment and opinion.In October of 2008, seven firearms were stolen from a home in Will County. | | | | Date Created: | 11-19-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 118749 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071449 Original UID: 189427 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 213: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 December 3 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Bench trial proceedings in the circuit court of Cook County resulted in a finding that this defendant was guilty of a 2002 shooting death. Initially a 30-year term was imposed, but, after the trial judge realized that mandatory enhanced sentencing for use of a firearm was applicable, he gave the defendant a 20-year term with a 25-year enhancement. | | | | Date Created: | 11-19-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117709 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071451 Original UID: 189429 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 214: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 December 3 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This defendant was charged in Kane County in 2012 with several offenses, including domestic battery and weapons violations, only one of which is at issue here. Count I of the indictment was brought under the statute on aggravated unlawful use of a weapon. It alleged that the defendant knowingly carried or concealed in a motor vehicle a .45-caliber handgun at a time when he had not been issued a currently valid card under the Firearm Owners Identification Card (FOID) Act. This is a Class 4 felony. | | | | Date Created: | 11-19-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117789 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071452 Original UID: 189430 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 215: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 December 3 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 1994, when this Cook County offender was 19 years old, he went to his fathers home and shot him to death, along with a woman he did not know who happened to be there. The woman survived long enough to identify Thompson, and he confessed and directed police to the murder weapon. | | | | Date Created: | 11-19-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 118151 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071453 Original UID: 189431 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 216: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 December 3 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In these consolidated cases from Will County, the Illinois Supreme Court held that criminal charges which identified the victim only as a minor were properly dismissed before trial. Statute requires that a charging instrument alleging injury to a person must give his name, if known. | | | | Date Created: | 11-19-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 118218 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071454 Original UID: 189432 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 217: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 December 17 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Bench trial proceedings in the circuit court of Cook County resulted in this defendants conviction for the 2005 shooting deaths of two persons Elijah Coleman, who was gunned down when he opened the door of his Chicago home, and this defendants alleged accomplice, Joshua Stanley, who was with the defendant at the time and who was shot in an alley the next evening. Apparently this botched robbery attempt was based on a plan embarked on by Stanley pursuant to a rumor that Coleman was a lottery winner. | | | | Date Created: | 12-17-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117242 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071457 Original UID: 189435 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 218: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 December 17 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2009, Chicago police who were responding to reports of gunfire near 73rd and Blackstone saw this defendant, with a gun in his hand, exit the car in which he was sitting. He threw the handgun back into the vehicle and fled on foot, throwing another object to the ground as he ran. | | | | Date Created: | 12-17-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117387 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071458 Original UID: 189436 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 219: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 January 22 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | On January 27, 2011, this defendant was driving a van whose registered owner was a woman named Pearlene Chattic. She was the subject of an outstanding arrest warrant, and, because of this, the defendant was stopped by a Sterling police officer. | | | | Date Created: | 01-22-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 115769 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071480 Original UID: 189459 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 220: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 January 22 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This defendant was arrested on April 7, 2012, after Chicago police were called to a disturbance at a home on South Seeley Avenue, which was not where he resided. He was 17 years old at the time. A loaded, black Ruger .9-millimeter pistol was found on the front porch, and Tolbert admitted that he owned it and had placed it there. | | | | Date Created: | 01-22-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 117846 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071481 Original UID: 189460 FIRST WORD: People | |
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