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.
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.
After several rounds of DNA testing to determine the paternity of A.A., a Jefferson County child born April 26, 2013, it was revealed that the father was neither the mothers husband nor the appellant here, who had signed a voluntary acknowledgement of paternity before the mother left the hospital after giving birth.
Heritage Lake Association -vs- Ameren Illinois Company d/b/a Ameren Illinois: Complaint as to damage to infrastructure from Ameren's replacement of poles, towers and lines on the Diamond Star Tap Project in Mackinaw, Illinois.
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.
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.