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Other charges of aggravated fleeing and eluding, aggravated battery and armed violence were dismissed. He also pleaded guilty to the unlawful possession charge he was already facing when the crash ...
The Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today Act, commonly known as the SAFE-T Act, is a state of Illinois statute enacted in 2021 that makes a number of reforms to the criminal justice system, affecting policing, pretrial detention and bail, sentencing, and corrections.
On its face, Aggravated Unlawful Use of a Weapon, 720 ILCS 5/24-1.6(a)(1), (a)(3)(A) (2008), violated the right to keep and bear arms, as guaranteed by the Second Amendment, because it amounted to a wholesale statutory ban on the exercise of a personal right that was specifically named in and guaranteed by the United States Constitution, as ...
United States v. Batchelder, 442 U.S. 114 (1979), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that, where two statutes criminalize the same act and those statutes have different maximum penalties, the maximum penalty of the statute the prosecutor chose to charge under applies.
Armed violence is a class X felony punishable by six to 30 years in prison. Aggravated discharge of a firearm is a class 1 felony punishable by four to 15 years in prison.
Aug. 25—URBANA — An Urbana man who admitted he had a gun and methamphetamine at the same time has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. A Champaign County jury had heard evidence against ...
Between 20 years and life imprisonment (parole eligibility for life sentence if crime committed before January 1, 1995: 15 years or 20 years if sentenced to more than 1 life sentence, 25 years if the victim was under the age of 8) (Prisoners are eligible for geriatric parole when they turn 60)
Sep. 20—A local man accused of threatening another man with a gun at an area bar last year received a deferred two-year sentence in Flathead County District Court earlier this month. Tuyen Quang ...