Case People v. Marc J. Wachter Court Appellate Court of Illinois, Second District Date Decided June 23, 2026 Docket No. […]
Case People v. Jermaine Evans Court Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fifth Division Date Decided June 18, 2026 Docket
Case People of the State of Illinois v. Walter Campbell Court Illinois Appellate Court, First District, Fifth Division Date Decided
Case People of the State of Illinois v. Patricio J. Salas-Pineda Court Appellate Court of Illinois, Second District Date Decided
The First District affirms a financial exploitation of elderly person conviction, rejecting challenges to evidence sufficiency, confrontation clause compliance, and counsel effectiveness.
The First District reverses dismissal of a successive postconviction petition by a defendant sentenced to mandatory life at age 18, finding evolving neuroscience on young-adult brain development constitutes cause for the new claim.
The First District affirms suppression of evidence where the State could not show reasonable articulable suspicion beyond mere firearm possession to justify a Terry stop, applying People v. Aguilar.
The Fourth District affirms a felon-in-possession conviction, finding the inventory search valid despite procedural shortcomings and rejecting both facial and as-applied Second Amendment challenges under Bruen.
The First District affirms attempted murder and armed habitual criminal convictions, finding the evidence sufficient and counsel not ineffective for failing to challenge certain testimony.
The Second District rejects a novel defense argument that shared-birthday timing could defeat the ‘at least 5 years older’ element in aggravated criminal sexual abuse, holding Illinois law does not recognize fractions of days in age computation.