People v. Collins, 2024 IL App (2d) 240005 (November). Episode 1085 (Duration 6:29)
A person cannot carry a weapon without also possessing it.
[Read more…]By Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Collins, 2024 IL App (2d) 240005 (November). Episode 1085 (Duration 6:29)
A person cannot carry a weapon without also possessing it.
[Read more…]By Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Harvey, 2024 IL 129357 (October). Episode 1073 (Duration 7:46)
Defendant’s admission that he had not been issued a valid CCL did not require independent corroboration under the corpus delicti rule.
[Read more…]By Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Harris, 2024 IL App (3d) 230406 (August). Episode 1066 (Duration 5:22)
AHC statute is clear and unambiguous and that it allows the State to use two or more drug offenses that occurred on separate days but were charged in the same bill of indictment and the same case to satisfy the predicate offense element of the statute
[Read more…]By Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Hatcher, 2024 IL App (1st) 220455 (March). Episode 1036 (Duration 5:13)
Defendant was not arrested based on his possession of a firearm; he was arrested based on his suspected involvement in bank fraud.
[Read more…]By Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Carpenter, 2024 IL App (1st) 220970 (March). Episode 1035 (Duration 13:18)
DWB involves police using “stereotypical thinking and hunches” and “dubious investigative techniques” in traffic stops.
[Read more…]By Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Gray, 2024 IL 127815 (March). Episode 1031 (Duration 10:28)
We conclude that defense counsel’s stipulation provided sufficient evidence to convict defendant of the offense of being an armed habitual criminal.
[Read more…]By Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Page, 2024 IL App (1st) 220830 (February). Episode 1028 (Duration 5:56)
Officer sees a man with a gun magazine, but has no reason to conclude the man’s possession of a firearm was illegal.
[Read more…]By Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Shelly, 2024 IL App (3d) 220432 (January). Episode 1026 (Duration 4:09)
The supreme court’s reasoning in Ramirez applies with equal force to the facts presented here. Section 24-5(b) is a possessory offense consisting of two elements: possession and defacement.
[Read more…]By Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Mallett, 2023 IL App (1st) 220920 (September). Episode 1011 (Duration 6:42)
(1) It was immediately apparent to the officer that he had probable cause to believe, that the white pills in the blue-tinted, knotted baggie were illegal narcotics. (2) The evidence clearly shows the car was her car, she had control of the car,
[Read more…]By Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Gunn, 2023 IL App (1st) 221032 (September). Episode 1010 (Duration 10:30)
The Bruen case acknowledged that shall-issue regimes, which are aimed at ensuring that only law-abiding citizens are allowed to possess and carry firearms, do not prevent citizens from exercising their second amendment rights.
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