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In A Franks Hearing The Falsity Of The Inaccuracy Matters

August 20, 2020 By Samuel Partida, Jr.

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People v. Williams, 2020 IL App (1st) 190418 (July). Episode 801 (Duration 8:02)

Error for the trial court to suppress evidence based on a Frank’s Hearing that showed the apartment had 5 bedrooms and not 4.

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Filed Under: Procedure, Warrant

Collective Knowledge Doctrine Only Applies If Officer’s Actually Communicate

July 13, 2020 By Samuel Partida, Jr.

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People v. Williams, 2020 IL App (1st) 172992 (June). Episode 797 (Duration 4:43)

Officer A said he smelled marijuana, Officer B searched the car so the court reversed the conviction.

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Filed Under: Probable Cause, Traffic Stop

Can You Be Stopped And Arrested For Being An Illegal Alien?

July 1, 2020 By Samuel Partida, Jr.

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People v. Montes, 2020 IL App (2d) 180565 (June). Episode 793 (Duration 14:30)

Can a person be stopped and arrested for being in the country illegally?

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Filed Under: Consent To Search, Reasonable Suspicion

Parolees Have A Reduced Expectation Of Privacy But How Low Does It Go?

June 9, 2020 By Samuel Partida, Jr.

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People v. Johnson, 2020 IL App (1st) 172987 (May). Episode 783 (Duration 7:40)

Parolees have less constitutional protection when it comes to a search of their home.

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Filed Under: Warrant

DUI Probable Cause And Chicken Wing Hot Sauce In Your Beard

June 4, 2020 By Samuel Partida, Jr.

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People v. Bailey, 2019 IL App (3d) 180396 (May). Episode 631 (Duration 15:01)

Food in your beard is not particularly indicative of anything.

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Filed Under: DUI, Police, Probable Cause, Traffic Stop

Rule Of Lenity Explanation

June 2, 2020 By Samuel Partida, Jr.

Sometimes when lawyers are trying to make sense of the criminal law two different laws may appear to contradict themselves.

What should happen in those situations?

Then rule of lenity is applied. So what is the rule of lenity?

Rule Of Lenity

The rule of lenity is:

“The judicial doctrine holding that a court, in construing an ambiguous criminal statute that sets out multiple or inconsistent punishments, should resolve the ambiguity in favor of the more lenient punishment.”

Black’s Law Dictionary (11th ed. 2019).

The Illinois Supreme Court has stated, “under the rule of lenity, we adopt the more lenient interpretation of a criminal statute when, after consulting traditional canons of statutory construction, we are left with an ambiguous statute.” People v. Gaytan, 2015 IL 116223, ¶ 39, 32 N.E.3d 641.

Example Of The Rule Of Lenity

Consider the case of People v. Rowell, 2020 IL App (4th) 190231 (April). Episode 766 (Duration 5:32) as an example of where the rule lenity was applied.

Defendant was challenging the state’s attempt to sentence her to 180 days i jail. The state said they were merely section 11-501(c)(3) of the Vehicle Code (625 ILCS 5/11-501(c)(3)) which required her to serve a minimum of 180 days’ imprisonment.

Defendant argued the plain language of the statute is permissive rather than mandatory, noting section 11-501(c)(3) lacks words like “mandatory” or “shall” with regard to the six months of imprisonment, which are included elsewhere in section 11-501.

The court had to determine whether the legislature intended section 11-501(c)(3) to require a trial court to impose a minimum of six months’ imprisonment as part of defendant’s sentence.

The Statute At Issue

625 ILCS 5/11-501(c)(3)

At issue in this case was section 11-501(c)(3) of the Vehicle Code (625 ILCS 5/11- 501(c)(3)), which states:

“A person who violates subsection (a) is subject to 6 months of imprisonment, an additional mandatory minimum fine of $1,000, and 25 days of community service in a program benefiting children if the person was transporting a person under the age of 16 at the time of the violation.”

625 ILCS 5/11-501(c)(3).

Problems With The Statue

The defense pointed out that the statute did not make use of the words “mandatory” or shall which are the understood terms used to document a required provision.

In different sections of 11-501 the law makers in fact did use the term “mandatory” or “shall” to explicitly say when something is required rather than merely be discreationary.

Finally, the defense could point to more serious DUI charges that don’t require 180 days in jail.

The Prosecution Said

The State noted that defendant already faced the possibility of being sentenced to 364 days in jail, for a Class A misdemeanor conviction.

Thus, the phrase “is subject to 6 months of imprisonment” would be entirely superfluous unless it is interpreted to require 6 months of incarceration.

Holding

While this argument has appeal, we are reluctant to insert the word “mandatory” into the statute where it does not exist.

The court finally pointed to the rule of lenity to rule that the 180 days of jail were not necessarily required.

The court said section 11-501(c)(3) should not be construed to impose a mandatory minimum period of 6 months’ imprisonment. The case was sent back to the trial court for a new sentencing hearing.

Filed Under: Mistake of Law, Sentencing

Dropsy, Smells-Me, Front Seating, and Other Testilying Testimony Has To Be Weighed On It’s Own Merit

June 2, 2020 By Samuel Partida, Jr.

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People v. Campbell
, 2019 IL App (1st) 161640 (April)
. Episode 630 (Duration 11:07)

Court is not insensitive to claims of “dropsy” testimony and “testilying.”

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