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| | 1: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 April 18 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | A three-year-old girl died in Kewanee in 1995. She was the daughter of this defendants live-in girlfriend. Autopsy results showed massive head injuries and evidence of suffocation. The defendants pretrial statements initially indicated that he came into the childs bedroom and found her lifeless, but he also later admitted hitting her. He did not testify at his 1996 Henry County jury trial, at which a knowing murder charge was dismissed by the State. This left only the charges of aggravated battery of a child and felony murder. The defendant objected that proceeding in this manner removed the possibility of an involuntary manslaughter instruction, but he was overruled. The jury found guilt of felony murder and aggravated battery of a child. Mandatory natural-life imprisonment was the sentence. | | | | Date Created: | 01-25-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 112890 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000063736 Original UID: 182085 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 2: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 January 25 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Lake Holiday is a private lake community in La Salle County. The plaintiff has owned property in the development since 1994 and is a member of the Lake Holiday Property Owners Association, an Illinois not-for-profit corporation. The association has traffic rules, including rules against speeding. It provides for fines, and maintains a security department. On October 20, 2008, plaintiff was on a road on the private grounds when he was stopped for speeding by a security officer and received a citation. | | | | Date Created: | 01-25-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 113907 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000063737 Original UID: 182087 FIRST WORD: Poris | |
| 3: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 March 25 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This action to recover damages for the tort of intentional interference with a testamentary expectancy was filed in the circuit court of Cook County. The decedent, Frank Dama, died in 2009. Plaintiff Colleen Bjork had been a hospice worker for decedents late wife, while the defendant, Frank OMeara, had been the decedents dentist. Neither is related to decedent. | | | | Date Created: | 01-25-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 114044 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000063738 Original UID: 182088 FIRST WORD: Bjork | |
| 4: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 February 7 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Cook County defendant received a three-year sentence for Class 4 possession of cocaine after a stipulated bench trial. The appellate court reversed the conviction, finding lack of probable cause for his initial arrest, | | | | Date Created: | 02-07-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 112734 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000063804 Original UID: 182096 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 5: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 February 7 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | A Cook County jury convicted this defendant in the 2004 shooting death of a man whose body was found in a garbage can on the south side of Chicago. He received consecutive prison terms of 50 years for the murder and 5 years for concealment of a homicidal death. The appellate court had initially reversed and remanded for a new trial, finding plain error in purportedly inadequate questioning during jury selection, but, pursuant to a supervisory order from the Illinois Supreme Court, it reconsidered, and, ultimately, affirmed the convictions and sentences. In this decision, the supreme court agreed with what the appellate court had done, although reasoning slightly differently.Wilmington gave a statement | | | | Date Created: | 02-07-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 112938 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000063805 Original UID: 182097 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 6: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 February 7 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2011, the States Attorney of Clinton County filed an information alleging that this defendant had committed, on July 9, 2010, the Class 4 felony of driving on a suspended license. His license had been suspended in 1997, but, in 2006, he applied for a new license using a different name and answering negatively to a question as to whether his license had ever been suspended. A new license was issued at that time. | | | | Date Created: | 02-07-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 113986 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000063806 Original UID: 182098 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 7: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 March 25 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | A Cook County jury convicted this defendant of three counts of predatory criminal sexual assault, three counts of criminal sexual assault, five counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, and one count of possession of child pornography. | | | | Date Created: | 02-07-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 112467 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000063807 Original UID: 182099 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 8: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 May 28 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2005, this Cook County defendant was found guilty of aggravated battery with a firearm and was sentenced to a 12-year term. The appellate court affirmed. In 2008, he filed,pro se, his first postconviction petition. It was summarily dismissed, and the appellate court affirmed. | | | | Date Created: | 02-22-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 113471 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000063808 Original UID: 182100 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 9: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 February 22 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This school employment dispute comes from Griggsville-Perry Community Unit School District No. 4 in Pike County. The concerned employee was a paraprofessional who, for 11 years, had worked in the elementary school library, helped at recess, and taught keyboarding classes. She was a member of the Griggsville-Perry Federation of Support Personnel IFT-AFT, Local #4141, which had a collective-bargaining agreement with the employing school district, the plaintiff here. | | | | Date Created: | 02-22-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 113721 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000063809 Original UID: 182101 FIRST WORD: Griggsville | |
| 10: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 February 23 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Consolidated Grain and Barge Enterprises, the defendant here, maintains a grain elevator in La Salle County. It sold the crops of Lawrence Rogowski, of Utica, and delivered to him the proceeds of that sale by checks paid directly to him. He is not a party to this action. | | | | Date Created: | 02-22-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 113836 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000063940 Original UID: 182124 FIRST WORD: State | |
| 11: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 February 22 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In this Livingston County case, the defendant, charged with five counts of burglary, pled guilty in 2009 and received a sentence of 2 years probation and 180 days in jail. He was ordered to pay a public defender fee of $200 after the judge questioned him about his employment. This fee would reimburse the county for the cost of appointed counsel. Later, in 2010, he was sentenced to six years in prison after having been found to have violated his probation. In his appeal, Somers contended that the hearing on his ability to pay the public defender fee had been inadequate, but he later also argued that it was now too late for a remand for a proper hearing because the applicable statute calls for a hearing within 90 days of judgment. He thus argued that no hearing could be held at all and that the fee should be vacated. The appellate court remanded for a new hearing anyway and this appeal followed. | | | | Date Created: | 02-22-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 114054 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000063943 Original UID: 182127 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 12: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 February 23 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2010, a Peoria County jury found this defendant guilty of attempted murder, aggravated battery with a firearm, two counts of armed robbery, and unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon. Four victims testified, identifying the defendant as the man who robbed them at gunpoint in 2008. One of the victims was shot multiple times. The circuit court imposed a 95-year term. | | | | Date Created: | 02-22-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 114121 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000063944 Original UID: 182128 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 13: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 March 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This dispute began in 2007 when the Inspector General of the City of Chicago initiated an investigation of possible improprieties with respect to how a former city employee had been awarded a city contract without going through the normal competitive process. Documents were sought from the citys Law Department, and some information was furnished, but some documents furnished contained redactions, based on the Law Departments reliance on attorney-client privilege and the work product doctrine. | | | | Date Created: | 03-21-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 112488 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064206 Original UID: 182175 FIRST WORD: Ferguson | |
| 14: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 March 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 1996, a Cook County jury convicted this defendant of first degree murder and attempted first degree murder, and he was sentenced to consecutive terms of 60 and 30 years. The appellate court affirmed. | | | | Date Created: | 03-21-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 113399 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064207 Original UID: 182176 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 15: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 March 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 1998, this Cook County defendant committed offenses for which he was indicted for first degree murder, home invasion, residential burglary and two separate charges of aggravated criminal sexual assault. A conviction for the last-named offense, by statute, triggers mandatory consecutive sentences where there are convictions for multiple offenses. | | | | Date Created: | 03-21-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 113603 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064208 Original UID: 182177 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 16: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 March 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2006, an 80-year-old man was found strangled to death in his apartment in Riverdale. The victims garage was empty, but his car was later recovered several blocks away. The keys to the car were in the possession of this defendant when he was arrested in connection with an unrelated incident in Dolton. Bailey was also in possession of the victims checkbook and apartment keys. | | | | Date Created: | 03-21-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 113690 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064234 Original UID: 182206 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 17: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 May 28 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2009, Julie Q., was reported to the DCFS by her estranged husband concerning recent events involving alcoholism, and an investigation commenced. | | | | Date Created: | 03-21-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 113783 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064235 Original UID: 182207 FIRST WORD: Julie | |
| 18: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 May 28 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Winnebago County defendant went to a jury trial concerning sexual misconduct allegedly committed against his stepdaughter in 2007, when she was nine years old. She testified at trial, as did her young cousin and stepmother, along with a child forensic interviewer and a registered nurse. | | | | Date Created: | 03-21-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | Docket No. 113998 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064787 Original UID: 182758 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 19: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 March 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In Lake County, this defendant was charged with indecent solicitation of a child and unlawful restraint based on an incident that occurred in 2007 concerning a girl who was walking home from school in Waukegan. Cardona has never been brought to trial on these charges. Instead, he was ruled unfit for trial and was transferred to the Elgin Mental Health Center for further evaluation and treatment. | | | | Date Created: | 03-21-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | Docket No.114076 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064788 Original UID: 182759 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 20: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 March 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | A Henry County jury convicted this defendant of armed robbery for taking $965 from Julie Kelly in 2009 by threatening the use of force while armed with a firearm. The circuit court imposed a 23-year term, which included a 15-year firearm enhancement. Blair complained that this statutory enhancement was unconstitutional and appealed. | | | | Date Created: | 03-21-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | Docket No. 114122 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000064789 Original UID: 182760 FIRST WORD: People | |
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