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Vehicular Hijacking Defense Consisted Of Being Too Intoxicated To Form Intent

April 3, 2024 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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Filed Under: Affirmative Defense, Vehicular Hijacking Tagged With: Sufficiency of the Evidence, Voluntary Intoxication

Vehicular Invasion Occurred When Victim Struggled to Keep Car Door Closed That Was Forced Open

March 22, 2024 By Samuel Partida, Jr.

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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Filed Under: Accountability, Vehicular Hijacking Tagged With: Force, Vehicular Invasion

Vehicular Hijacking Is Committed When A Person Takes A Motor Vehicle Use Of Force

January 2, 2018 By Samuel Partida, Jr.

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.

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Filed Under: Vehicular Hijacking

One Car Means One Vehicular Hijacking No Matter How Many Victims

November 9, 2016 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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Filed Under: Consecutive, Merging Counts, Vehicular Hijacking Tagged With: One Act-One Crime

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