| | 3161: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 December 30 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | CHIEF JUSTICE KILBRIDE delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Justices Freeman, Thomas, Garman, Karmeier, Burke, and Theis concurred in the judgment and opinion. On May 20, 2007, a fatal accident occurred in North Chicago. At an intersection, a speeding car killed the driver of a vehicle and injured her three passengers. On February 27, 2008, a Lake County jury found this defendant guilty of reckless homicide. He was sentenced on May 16, 2008, to nine years for this offense, and this conviction survived his appeal to the appellate court, which vacated or reduced other lesser charges of which he also had been found guilty. Those matters are not at issue here. | | | | Date Created: | 12 30 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 111666 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000046307 Original UID: 25854 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3162: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 April 18 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | A three-year-old girl died in Kewanee in 1995. She was the daughter of this defendants live-in girlfriend. Autopsy results showed massive head injuries and evidence of suffocation. The defendants pretrial statements initially indicated that he came into the childs bedroom and found her lifeless, but he also later admitted hitting her. He did not testify at his 1996 Henry County jury trial, at which a knowing murder charge was dismissed by the State. This left only the charges of aggravated battery of a child and felony murder. The defendant objected that proceeding in this manner removed the possibility of an involuntary manslaughter instruction, but he was overruled. The jury found guilt of felony murder and aggravated battery of a child. Mandatory natural-life imprisonment was the sentence. | | | | Date Created: | 01-25-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 112890 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000063736 Original UID: 182085 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3163: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 February 7 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Cook County defendant received a three-year sentence for Class 4 possession of cocaine after a stipulated bench trial. The appellate court reversed the conviction, finding lack of probable cause for his initial arrest, | | | | Date Created: | 02-07-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 112734 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000063804 Original UID: 182096 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3164: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 February 7 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | A Cook County jury convicted this defendant in the 2004 shooting death of a man whose body was found in a garbage can on the south side of Chicago. He received consecutive prison terms of 50 years for the murder and 5 years for concealment of a homicidal death. The appellate court had initially reversed and remanded for a new trial, finding plain error in purportedly inadequate questioning during jury selection, but, pursuant to a supervisory order from the Illinois Supreme Court, it reconsidered, and, ultimately, affirmed the convictions and sentences. In this decision, the supreme court agreed with what the appellate court had done, although reasoning slightly differently.Wilmington gave a statement | | | | Date Created: | 02-07-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 112938 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000063805 Original UID: 182097 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3165: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 February 7 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2011, the States Attorney of Clinton County filed an information alleging that this defendant had committed, on July 9, 2010, the Class 4 felony of driving on a suspended license. His license had been suspended in 1997, but, in 2006, he applied for a new license using a different name and answering negatively to a question as to whether his license had ever been suspended. A new license was issued at that time. | | | | Date Created: | 02-07-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 113986 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000063806 Original UID: 182098 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3166: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 March 25 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | A Cook County jury convicted this defendant of three counts of predatory criminal sexual assault, three counts of criminal sexual assault, five counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, and one count of possession of child pornography. | | | | Date Created: | 02-07-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 112467 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000063807 Original UID: 182099 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3167: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 May 28 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2005, this Cook County defendant was found guilty of aggravated battery with a firearm and was sentenced to a 12-year term. The appellate court affirmed. In 2008, he filed,pro se, his first postconviction petition. It was summarily dismissed, and the appellate court affirmed. | | | | Date Created: | 02-22-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 113471 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000063808 Original UID: 182100 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3168: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 February 22 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In this Livingston County case, the defendant, charged with five counts of burglary, pled guilty in 2009 and received a sentence of 2 years probation and 180 days in jail. He was ordered to pay a public defender fee of $200 after the judge questioned him about his employment. This fee would reimburse the county for the cost of appointed counsel. Later, in 2010, he was sentenced to six years in prison after having been found to have violated his probation. In his appeal, Somers contended that the hearing on his ability to pay the public defender fee had been inadequate, but he later also argued that it was now too late for a remand for a proper hearing because the applicable statute calls for a hearing within 90 days of judgment. He thus argued that no hearing could be held at all and that the fee should be vacated. The appellate court remanded for a new hearing anyway and this appeal followed. | | | | Date Created: | 02-22-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 114054 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000063943 Original UID: 182127 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3169: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 February 23 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2010, a Peoria County jury found this defendant guilty of attempted murder, aggravated battery with a firearm, two counts of armed robbery, and unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon. Four victims testified, identifying the defendant as the man who robbed them at gunpoint in 2008. One of the victims was shot multiple times. The circuit court imposed a 95-year term. | | | | Date Created: | 02-22-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 114121 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000063944 Original UID: 182128 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3170: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 March 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 1996, a Cook County jury convicted this defendant of first degree murder and attempted first degree murder, and he was sentenced to consecutive terms of 60 and 30 years. The appellate court affirmed. | | | | Date Created: | 03-21-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 113399 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064207 Original UID: 182176 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3171: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 March 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 1998, this Cook County defendant committed offenses for which he was indicted for first degree murder, home invasion, residential burglary and two separate charges of aggravated criminal sexual assault. A conviction for the last-named offense, by statute, triggers mandatory consecutive sentences where there are convictions for multiple offenses. | | | | Date Created: | 03-21-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 113603 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064208 Original UID: 182177 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3172: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 March 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2006, an 80-year-old man was found strangled to death in his apartment in Riverdale. The victims garage was empty, but his car was later recovered several blocks away. The keys to the car were in the possession of this defendant when he was arrested in connection with an unrelated incident in Dolton. Bailey was also in possession of the victims checkbook and apartment keys. | | | | Date Created: | 03-21-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 113690 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064234 Original UID: 182206 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3173: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 May 28 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Winnebago County defendant went to a jury trial concerning sexual misconduct allegedly committed against his stepdaughter in 2007, when she was nine years old. She testified at trial, as did her young cousin and stepmother, along with a child forensic interviewer and a registered nurse. | | | | Date Created: | 03-21-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | Docket No. 113998 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064787 Original UID: 182758 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3174: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 March 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In Lake County, this defendant was charged with indecent solicitation of a child and unlawful restraint based on an incident that occurred in 2007 concerning a girl who was walking home from school in Waukegan. Cardona has never been brought to trial on these charges. Instead, he was ruled unfit for trial and was transferred to the Elgin Mental Health Center for further evaluation and treatment. | | | | Date Created: | 03-21-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | Docket No.114076 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064788 Original UID: 182759 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3175: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 March 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | A Henry County jury convicted this defendant of armed robbery for taking $965 from Julie Kelly in 2009 by threatening the use of force while armed with a firearm. The circuit court imposed a 23-year term, which included a 15-year firearm enhancement. Blair complained that this statutory enhancement was unconstitutional and appealed. | | | | Date Created: | 03-21-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | Docket No. 114122 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064789 Original UID: 182760 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3176: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 April 4 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This criminal appeal arises from the denial of a motion to suppress. Defendant Fitzpatrick was stopped by a Zion police officer for walking down the middle of a street, a petty offense which violates the Illinois Vehicle Code and which was also contrary to municipal ordinance. After a brief pat-down search, Fitzpatrick was placed under arrest and, at the police station, was searched for contraband. Cocaine was found in his sock. | | | | Date Created: | 04-04-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | Docket No. 113449 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064791 Original UID: 182762 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3177: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2018 April 4 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2003, a stampede at a Chicago nightclub killed 21 people and injured 50 others. Security guards had released pepper spray to break up a fight on the dance floor, and a rush to the exit crushed these victims. | | | | Date Created: | 04-04-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | Docket No. 113482 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064793 Original UID: 182766 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3178: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 April 4 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Cook County defendant was arrested in October of 2008 when Chicago police observed him standing in the doorway of an apartment building. A codefendant who was seen standing on the sidewalk twice accepted money from a passerby and then nodded to the defendant, who then retrieved an item from the vestibule and handed it to this person. Police arrested the defendant and recovered, from the vestibule, cannabis and handguns. | | | | Date Created: | 04-04-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | Docket No. 114100 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064808 Original UID: 182783 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3179: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 April 18 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Multiple weapons charges were filed against this Cook County defendant as a result of a 2006 incident in Homewood. The vehicle which the defendant was driving was seen at dusk parked with the engine running in the center of the entrance to a motel parking lot, blocking it. Two officers parked their squad car some distance away and approached on foot to speak with the driver and saw, in plain view in the center console, a plastic bag with a bullet sticking up inside. The bullet was variously described as a large pistol round, approximately three inches long, almost as large as a rifle round. | | | | Date Created: | 04-28-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | Docket No. 111835 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064809 Original UID: 182784 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 3180: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 April 18 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This criminal case comes from Elgin, in Kane County. Esteban Martinez was charged in 2006 with aggravated battery and mob action. The alleged victims were Avery Binion and Demarco Scott. After numerous continuances, a jury trial was scheduled to begin on May 17, 2010, at 8:30 a.m. However, the State announced it was not ready because its two main witnesses, the alleged victims, had not arrived. The prosecutor made an oral request to continue the trial just for a few moments to await the arrival of these witnesses. In response to this, in an apparent attempt to move the case forward, the trial judge proposed to begin the work of empaneling jurors without swearing them in, and the State agreed. | | | | Date Created: | 04-18-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | Docket No. 113475 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064812 Original UID: 182787 FIRST WORD: People | |
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