By Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Grayer, 2022 IL App (1st) 210808 (July). Episode 954 (Duration 6:29)
The Slabon court’s reliance on Cunningham for the proposition that a defendant’s voluntary intoxication may be relevant where it is so extreme as to “suspend entirely the power of reasoning,” such that a defendant is incapable of forming a specific intent or malice, is misplaced.
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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. Reese, 2017 IL 120011 (October). Episode 435 (Duration 7:59)
Vehicular hijacking doesn’t require that defendant take actual control of the vehicle.
By Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Jackson, 2016 IL App (1st) 133823 (October). Episode 254 (Duration 4:16)
One hijacked car means one aggravated vehicular hijacking even though there were two victims.
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