By Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Coleman, 2023 IL App (2d) 220008 (April). Episode 994 (Duration 8:50)
The test for a forcible felony under the residual clause is not whether the felony is normally classified as nonviolent, but whether, under the particular facts of the case, it was contemplated that violence might be necessary to enable the conspirators to carry out their common purpose.
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People v. Woods, 2023 IL 127794 (March). Episode 991 (Duration 6:22)
The law of accountability is misstated when the jury iss instructed that the defendant could be held accountable if she did not know, but should have known, of her paramour’s abusive conduct.
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People v. Walls, 2022 IL App (1st) 200167 (June). Episode 951 (Duration 6:07)
Defendant used constraining power, compulsion, and strength toward a specific end in holding victim’s door
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People v. Carr-McKnight, 2020 IL App (1st) 163245 (August). Episode 812 (Duration 6:25)
Defendant is guilty of first degree murder type A based on a theory of accountability.
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People v. Jackson, 2020 IL App (4th) 170036 (July). Episode 800 (Duration 9:41)
A defendant need not intend to commit any specific crime in a common-design case.
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People v. Crane, 2020 IL App (3d) 170386 (May). Episode 788 (Duration 16:03)
State didn’t really prove that defendant was the decoy driver for a plan to transport cannabis to Virginia for distribution.
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People v. Ramos, 2020 IL App (1st) 170929 (March). Episode 760 (Duration 21:44)
Conviction for murder reversed outright where the judge misconstrued defendant’s so called confession.
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People v. Ruiz, 2019 IL App (1st) 152157 (March). Episode 617 (Duration 15:47)
Defendant’s conversation with his buddy is recorded and his friend kept telling him he always takes things too far.
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People v. Rebollar-Vergara, 2019 IL App (2d) 140871 (March). Episode 616 (Duration 15:29)
Defendant gets into an argument with a guy and his buddy ups and shoots him, then sloppy questioning happens in the grand jury room.
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People v. Long, 2012018 IL App (4th) 150919 (August). Episode 535 (Duration 7:35)
Defendant is guilty of a conspiracy but the state had to prove how much meth they made with his camping fuel.
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