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| | | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 October 17 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Appellate citations: No. 3-06-0830 (unpublished order under Supreme Court Rule 23). No. 3-06-0859 (unpublished order under Supreme Court Rule 23). 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. After proceedings in 2006 in the circuit court of Peoria County, two children, then 13 and 8, were placed in the guardianship of the Department of Children and Family Services pursuant to findings that they were neglected based on an environment that was injurious to their welfare. | | | | Date Created: | 10 17 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 105849, 105952 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036262 Original UID: 17357 FIRST WORD: In | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 November 20 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Appellate citation: No. 4-07-0717 (unpublished order under Supreme Court Rule 23). JUSTICE BURKE delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Fitzgerald and Justices Freeman, Thomas, Kilbride, Garman, and Karmeier concurred in the judgment and opinion. In Champaign County, a mothers parental rights in her two children, ages four and six, were terminated in 2007. | | | | Date Created: | 11 20 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 106052 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036263 Original UID: 17358 FIRST WORD: In | |
| | | 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 People v. Cosby People v. Mendoza Appellate citations: Cosby, No. 3-03-0681 (unpublished order under Supreme Court Rule 23).Mendoza, 364 Ill.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 | |
| | | 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 | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 May 22 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Hennings, No. 3050016 (unpublished order under Supreme Court Rule 23). Patterson, No. 1040077 (unpublished order under Supreme Court Rule 23). 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. Both Edward Hennings, who was convicted in 2001 in Will County, and Vincent Patterson, who was convicted in 1983 in Cook County, had sentencing issues which they raised by way of complaint for habeas corpus. Their complaints were denied, and the appellate court affirmed. | | | | Date Created: | 05 22 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 102694, 103405 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036330 Original UID: 17433 FIRST WORD: Hennings | |
| | | 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 | |
| | | 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 | |
| | | 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 | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 July 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | A.G. Carlson, Inc., a metalworking corporation, had contracts to work on construction projects for three governmental entities. Performance bonds were required for these projects, and, in the issuance thereof, it was required that the two individuals who were Carlson's sole shareholder and its president sign an agreement to indemnify the sureties on the performance bonds for any losses they might incur. | | | | Date Created: | 07 24 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 103759 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036334 Original UID: 17437 FIRST WORD: Travelers | |
| | | 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 | |
| | | 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 May 22 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | JUSTICE KILBRIDE delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Thomas and Justices Freeman, Fitzgerald, Garman, Karmeier, and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion. The petitioner, Alan Beaman, appeals the dismissal of his post-conviction petition. His petition stems from a first degree murder conviction (720 ILCS 5/91 (West 1992)), and sentence of 50 years. | | | | Date Created: | 05 22 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 104096 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036384 Original UID: 17468 FIRST WORD: Illinois | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 September 18 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Appellate citation: No. 4-06-0269 (unpublished order under Supreme Court Rule 23). JUSTICE KARMEIER delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Justices Freeman, Thomas, Kilbride, and Garman concurred in the judgment and opinion. Chief Justice Fitzgerald and Justice Burke took no part in the decision. Reginald Beacham, an inmate in the Illinois correctional system, filed a complaint for an order of habeas corpus in 2004. The circuit court of Livingston County dismissed it, on the motion of the defendant Director of Corrections. In this decision, that dismissal was affirmed. | | | | Date Created: | 09 18 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 104176 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036397 Original UID: 17519 FIRST WORD: Beacham | |
| | | 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 | |
| | | 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 | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 September 18 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Appellate citation: 374 Ill. App. 3d 808. 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 Lake County, this juvenile was placed on probation in 2005 because of a domestic battery. In 2006, a new delinquency petition was filed alleging unlawful possession of a firearm and unlawful use of a weapon. | | | | Date Created: | 09 18 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 105137 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036416 Original UID: 17547 FIRST WORD: In | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 September 18 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Appellate citation: 372 Ill. App. 3d 300. JUSTICE BURKE delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Fitzgerald and Justices Freeman, Thomas, Kilbride, Garman, and Karmeier concurred in the judgment and opinion. In Will County, just south of Braidwood, there is a body of water that was once a sand quarry. After extraction efforts were terminated in 1974, the quarry was allowed to fill with water. | | | | Date Created: | 09 18 2008 | | | | Agency ID: | 104772 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000036418 Original UID: 17535 FIRST WORD: Alderson | |
| | | 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 | |
| | | 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 | |
| | | 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 | |
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