| | 3081: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 November 20 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE KARMEIER delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Fitzgerald and Justices Freeman, Thomas, Kilbride, Garman, and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion. In 1995, Corey Conick pled guilty in the circuit court of Cook County to first degree murder and attempted armed robbery. | | | | Date Created: | 11 20 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 105621 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036088 Original UID: 17246 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3082: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 November 20 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | CHIEF JUSTICE FITZGERALD delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Justices Freeman, Thomas, Kilbride, Garman, Karmeier, and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion. In 2001, this defendants girlfriend of three years was found shot to death in the bathroom of his apartment. | | | | Date Created: | 11 20 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 105206 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036092 Original UID: 17245 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3083: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 November 20 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE GARMAN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Fitzgerald and Justices Freeman, Thomas, Kilbride, Karmeier, and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion. This decision deals with procedural, rather than substantive, issues concerning matters before the Illinois Commerce Commission.. | | | | Date Created: | 11 20 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 105131 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036093 Original UID: 17244 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3084: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 October 17 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE GARMAN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Fitzgerald and Justices Freeman, Thomas, Kilbride, Karmeier, and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion. In DePue in Bureau County, a deputy saw defendant driver swerving across the center line of a street. | | | | Date Created: | 10 17 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 104558 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036189 Original UID: 17347 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3085: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 October 17 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Direct appeal from the circuit court of Cook County. JUSTICE FREEMAN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Fitzgerald and Justices Thomas, Garman, Karmeier, and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Kilbride dissented, with opinion. At noon on September 23, 2000, women and children were in an apartment at 1904 N. Kedzie Ave. in Chicago when this defendant entered and started shooting at them. | | | | Date Created: | 10 17 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 100983 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036246 Original UID: 17346 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3086: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 November 20 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Appellate citation: No. 1-05-1251 (unpublished order under Supreme Court Rule 23). JUSTICE THOMAS delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Fitzgerald and Justices Freeman, Kilbride, Garman, Karmeier, and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion. In 1999, a man who had been beaten was found in a dumpster near a Chicago housing project and died two months later. | | | | Date Created: | 11 20 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 105092 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036256 Original UID: 17352 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3087: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 October 17 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Appellate citation: No. 4-06-0706 (unpublished order under Supreme Court Rule 23). CHIEF JUSTICE FITZGERALD delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Justices Freeman, Thomas, Kilbride, Garman, Karmeier, and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion. A postconviction petition was received by the circuit court of Livingston County from a former inmate who was serving a term of mandatory supervised release after his parole in 2007. | | | | Date Created: | 10 17 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 105212 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036257 Original UID: 17353 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3088: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 September 19 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Nos. 100681, 102584 cons. People v. Cosby People v. Mendoza Appellate citations: Cosby, No. 3-03-0681 (unpublished order under Supreme Court Rule 23).Mendoza, 364 Ill. App. 3d 564. JUSTICE GARMAN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Fitzgerald and Justices Thomas and Karmeier concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Freeman concurred in part and dissented in part, with opinion, joined by Justices Kilbride and Burke. Contraband found in connection with otherwise routine traffic stops resulted in criminal charges in these two cases. In the Will County case, Michael Cosby was convicted by a jury for unlawful possession of cocaine in 2001 on the basis of crack cocaine found in personal property he had been carrying on his person. In the Kane County case, Hugo Mendoza was charged with unlawful use of a weapon on the basis of a handgun found in his car in 2004. The circuit court suppressed that evidence and the State is the appellant in the action. | | | | Date Created: | 09 18 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 100681, 102584 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036326 Original UID: 17429 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3089: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 April 17 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Appellate citation: 363 Ill. App. 3d 567. JUSTICE FREEMAN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Thomas and Justices Fitzgerald, Kilbride, Garman, Karmeier, and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion. A Peoria County jury convicted this defendant of the armed robbery of a pizza restaurant which took place in the early morning hours of July 11, 2002. The appellate court affirmed. | | | | Date Created: | 04 17 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 102225 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036327 Original UID: 17430 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3090: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 April 23 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Appellate citation: 366 Ill. App. 3d 448. JUSTICE FITZGERALD delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Thomas and Justices Kilbride, Garman, and Karmeier concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Burke dissented, with opinion, upon denial of rehearing, joined by Justice Freeman. In the circuit court of Cook County, this defendant pled guilty to aggravated possession of a stolen motor vehicle. On June 25, 2000, he had stolen a Lexus parked in front of the home of a 75-year-old woman for whom he had been doing electrical work. While in her house, he had found her key chain and duplicated her car keys, enabling him to later return and steal the auto. | | | | Date Created: | 04 23 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 102985 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036331 Original UID: 17434 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3091: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 April 17 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Carpenter: 368 Ill. App. 3d 288. Garibaldi and Montes-Medina: direct appeals from the circuit court of Grundy County. JUSTICE KARMEIER delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Thomas and Justices Fitzgerald and Garman concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Kilbride specially concurred, with opinion, joined by Justices Freeman and Burke. Justice Burke specially concurred, with opinion, joined by Justices Freeman and Kilbride. These three consolidated cases arise from vehicle air bag compartments which contained something other than air bags. In the Cook County case of Derrick Carpenter, a BB gun was in an unused air bag space, and its handle was visible to Chicago police who stopped the driver for questioning in 2004. | | | | Date Created: | 04 17 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 103616, 103856, 103857 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036332 Original UID: 17435 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3092: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 May 27 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Appellate citation: 367 Ill. App. 3d 895. JUSTICE KILBRIDE delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Thomas and Justices Fitzgerald, Garman, and Karmeier concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Freeman dissented, with opinion, upon denial of rehearing, joined by Justice Burke. This De Kalb County defendant was convicted by a jury for armed violence, home invasion and residential burglary, for which he received concurrent 24-year sentences. A concurrent term of 5 years was also imposed on that same jury's conviction for aggravated battery. | | | | Date Created: | 05 27 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 103693 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036333 Original UID: 17436 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3093: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 June 19 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Appellate citation: 367 Ill. App. 3d 817. JUSTICE FITZGERALD delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Thomas and Justices Kilbride, Garman, and Karmeier concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Freeman specially concurred, with opinion, joined by Justice Burke. This defendant was 15 years old in 1998 when detectives came to his home, investigating the recent death of a man whose body had been found in a burglarized apartment. | | | | Date Created: | 06 19 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 103768 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036336 Original UID: 17439 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3094: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 July 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Appellate citation: 376 Ill. App. 3d 876. JUSTICE GARMAN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Thomas and Justices Fitzgerald and Karmeier concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Burke specially concurred, with opinion. Justices Freeman dissented, with opinion, joined by Justice Kilbride. This Cook County defendant has never been brought to trial on the drug charges against him because of the granting of a motion to suppress. After he was arrested in 2001 and charged with cocaine and cannabis possession, he complained that Chicago police had pursued him across the border into Indiana and arrested him there. Indiana statutory law requires that an arrestee be brought for a bond hearing before a judge in the Indiana county of the arrest. | | | | Date Created: | 07 24 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 103845 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036341 Original UID: 17465 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3095: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 July 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Appellate citation: 371 Ill. App. 3d 517. JUSTICE FITZGERALD delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Thomas and Justices Garman and Karmeier concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Burke specially concurred, with opinion, joined by Justices Freeman and Kilbride. In 2006, a police officer in White Hall saw this driver speeding, swerving, failing to use a turn signal when required, and rolling through a stop sign. The officer activated his rotator lights and spot lights and followed the driver for several blocks, but the driver never pulled over. Instead, the driver drove to his intended destination, disembarked, and was entering a house when the officer told him to get back in the vehicle. | | | | Date Created: | 07 24 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 104181 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036399 Original UID: 17520 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3096: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 May 22 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Appellate citation: 373 Ill. App. 3d 902. JUSTICE KARMEIER delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Thomas and Justices Freeman, Fitzgerald, Kilbride, Garman, and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion. This Cook County appeal involves the correct assessment of fines in connection with the defendants conviction for a 2003 burglary. The merits of the underlying conviction are not at issue. | | | | Date Created: | 05 22 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 104852 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036414 Original UID: 17538 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3097: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 May 22 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Appellate citation: 375 Ill. App. 3d 421. CHIEF JUSTICE THOMAS delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Justices Freeman, Fitzgerald, Kilbride, Garman, Karmeier, and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion.In McLean County, this store clerk was charged with felony retail theft of property worth over $150 in connection with video games priced between $17.99 and $49.99 which, between July 15 and August 25, 2003, he allegedly either stole, sold to friends at reduced prices, sold and pocketed the proceeds, or engaged in a combination of these. | | | | Date Created: | 05 22 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 104279 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036436 Original UID: 17525 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3098: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 June 5 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Appellate citation: No. 1052806 (unpublished order under Supreme Court Rule 23). JUSTICE FITZGERALD delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Thomas and Justices Freeman, Kilbride, Garman, Karmeier, and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion. In this Cook County case, the defendant held up a pedestrian on the north side of Chicago in 1999 using a BB gun. In a bench trial, he was convicted of armed robbery and received an eight-year prison term. No appeal was taken. | | | | Date Created: | 06 05 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 103972 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036443 Original UID: 17467 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3099: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 April 17 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Appellate citation: No. 3050402 (unpublished order under Supreme Court Rule 23). CHIEF JUSTICE THOMAS delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Justices Freeman, Fitzgerald, Kilbride, Garman, Karmeier, and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion. This Will County defendant was 59 years old in 2003 when he went to the Bolingbrook residence of his longtime girlfriend and shot her in the head, killing her. The victim had told him she was leaving him for another man. | | | | Date Created: | 04 17 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 104308 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036453 Original UID: 17526 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3100: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 June 5 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Appellate citation: 369 Ill. App. 3d 639. JUSTICE FITZGERALD delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Thomas and Justices Freeman, Kilbride, Garman, Karmeier, and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion. Convictions for theft over $100,000 were entered in 2001 against these Lake County defendants, who were employed by Abbott Laboratories. Repair work on elevators was at issue. The defendants appealed, asserting that Abbott had not suffered any pecuniary damages. | | | | Date Created: | 06 05 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 104315 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036454 Original UID: 17527 FIRST WORD: People | |
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