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 a financial exploitation of elderly person conviction, rejecting challenges to evidence sufficiency, confrontation clause compliance, and counsel effectiveness.
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 First District affirms an attorney fee apportionment under the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act, finding that purely procedural challenges to a partition complaint do not constitute a ‘good and substantial defense’ warranting fee-shifting.
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 a circuit court order directing limited partners to pay their respective portions of an unanswered capital call, finding the Limited Partnership Agreement authorized the call for operational expenses.
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.
The First District affirms a juvenile abuse and neglect adjudication, holding that a CAPS consultation note was properly admitted under the business records exception and the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying continuances.
The Second District affirms judgment finding no proximate cause between established fiduciary breach and claimed damages in family real estate dispute, and forfeiture of amendment arguments.