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| | | | 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 | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2014 March 20 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2008, an incident occurred on the south side of Chicago in which six shots were fired. This defendant, who was arrested as he ran from the scene, was found to have in his pocket a handgun with six spent shell casings inside. He already had a prior conviction for unlawful use of a weapon by a felon. After bench proceedings in the circuit court of Cook County, he was sentenced to nine years in prison for the Class 2 offense of unlawful use of a weapon by a felon. | | | | Date Created: | 03-20-2014 | | | | Agency ID: | 115581 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069207 Original UID: 188204 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2014 January 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | A Perry County conviction for driving on a suspended license was upheld by the Illinois Supreme Court even though, after that conviction, the summary suspension was later rescinded. | | | | Date Created: | 01-24-2014 | | | | Agency ID: | 115308 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000065020 Original UID: 183008 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2018 March 22 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District; heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County, the Hon. Matthew E. Coghlan, Judge, presiding. | | | | Date Created: | 04-22-2018 | | | | Agency ID: | 122059 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000076324 Original UID: 191735 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | 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 | |
| | | 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 | |
| | | 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 | |
| | | 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 | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2014 March 20 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Chief Justice Garman and Justices Freeman, Kilbride, Karmeier, Burke, and Theis concurred in the judgment and opinion. In 2008, in a church parking lot under the Dan Ryan expressway in Chicago, an armed but off-duty police officer heard the sound of breaking glass and found a man reaching into a parked car through a broken window. | | | | Date Created: | 03-20-2014 | | | | Agency ID: | 115527 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069205 Original UID: 188202 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | 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 | |
| | | 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 | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2017 February 17 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | At issue in this appeal is whether a minor who is tried in adult court under the automatic transfer provision of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 (Act) (705 ILCS 405/5-130 (West 2008))but is later not convicted of the charges which brought him into adult court is subject to mandatory adult sentencing under the Act. | | | | Date Created: | 02-17-2017 | | | | Agency ID: | 118966 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071934 Original UID: 189922 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | 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 | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 April 3 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Appellate citation: 369 Ill. App. 3d 154. 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. On June 16, 2000, there was a collision at the busy intersection of Wood Dale Road and Thorndale Avenue in Wood Dale. | | | | Date Created: | 04 03 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 104029 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036606 Original UID: 17718 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 January 21 | | | | 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. In 1999, this Cook County defendant was involved in a minor traffic incident with another driver. | | | | Date Created: | 01 21 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 109886 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000041438 Original UID: 21294 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2019 February 7 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Third District; heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Will County, the Hon. Daniel J. Rozak, Judge, presiding. | | | | Date Created: | 02-07-2019 | | | | Agency ID: | 123182 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000089410 Original UID: 200491 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | 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 | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 July 8 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2014, Troy police stopped this defendant for speeding and issued him a ticket. Illinois Supreme Court Rule 552 requires that portions of such a traffic citation be transmitted to the clerk of the circuit court within 48 hours of issuance. Geilers citation did not reach the clerk of the circuit court of Madison County until four days later. | | | | Date Created: | 07-08-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 119095 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071645 Original UID: 189632 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2009 June 18 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Appellate citation: No. 1-04-3005 (unpublished order under Supreme Court Rule 23). CHIEF JUSTICE FITZGERALD delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Justices Thomas, Kilbride, Garman, and Karmeier concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Burke dissented, with opinion, joined by Justice Freeman. | | | | Date Created: | 06 18 2009 | | | | Agency ID: | 103937 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000024981 Original UID: 12245 FIRST WORD: People | |
| | | 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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