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| | 461: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 December 17 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Bench trial proceedings in the circuit court of Cook County resulted in this defendants conviction for the 2005 shooting deaths of two persons Elijah Coleman, who was gunned down when he opened the door of his Chicago home, and this defendants alleged accomplice, Joshua Stanley, who was with the defendant at the time and who was shot in an alley the next evening. Apparently this botched robbery attempt was based on a plan embarked on by Stanley pursuant to a rumor that Coleman was a lottery winner. | | | | Date Created: | 12-17-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117242 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071457 Original UID: 189435 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 462: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 December 17 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2009, Chicago police who were responding to reports of gunfire near 73rd and Blackstone saw this defendant, with a gun in his hand, exit the car in which he was sitting. He threw the handgun back into the vehicle and fled on foot, throwing another object to the ground as he ran. | | | | Date Created: | 12-17-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117387 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071458 Original UID: 189436 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 463: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 December 17 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | At the end of the 2009-2010 school year, the Chicago Board of Education began a policy of designating as ineligible for rehire nonrenewed probationary appointed teachers (PATs) who had been nonrenewed twice, or who had been given an unsatisfactory performance rating. Do Not Hire designations were placed in such teachers personnel files. | | | | Date Created: | 12-17-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 118043 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071459 Original UID: 189437 FIRST WORD: Board | |
| 464: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 December 17 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | On behalf of a woman who died in 2007 in Jefferson County, a medical malpractice action alleging negligence was filed by her estate in 2009, naming the doctor who is the defendant here and the medical facility at which he had treated the decedent. | | | | Date Created: | 12-17-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 119000 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071460 Original UID: 189438 FIRST WORD: Bowman | |
| 465: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 December 17 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The Glenview Police Department provided a photo array for viewing by a cell phone purchaser who, from the array, identified this 16-year-old juvenile respondent as the individual from whom he purchased a cell phone on September 27, 2013, based on representations by that seller that the cell phone belonged to him. It did not, but had been reported stolen. | | | | Date Created: | 12-17-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 119178 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071461 Original UID: 189439 FIRST WORD: In | |
| 466: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 January 22 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | On January 27, 2011, this defendant was driving a van whose registered owner was a woman named Pearlene Chattic. She was the subject of an outstanding arrest warrant, and, because of this, the defendant was stopped by a Sterling police officer. | | | | Date Created: | 01-22-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 115769 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071480 Original UID: 189459 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 467: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 January 22 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This defendant was arrested on April 7, 2012, after Chicago police were called to a disturbance at a home on South Seeley Avenue, which was not where he resided. He was 17 years old at the time. A loaded, black Ruger .9-millimeter pistol was found on the front porch, and Tolbert admitted that he owned it and had placed it there. | | | | Date Created: | 01-22-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 117846 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071481 Original UID: 189460 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 468: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 January 22 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | A Cook County jury convicted this defendant of armed violence and unlawful possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. | | | | Date Created: | 01-22-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 117911 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071482 Original UID: 189461 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 469: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 January 22 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | On June 7, 2008, the decedent here, a 58-year-old woman who lived in the unincorporated Sugar Creek area of Will County, placed a 911 call for medical help, giving her address and saying that she could not breathe and needed an ambulance. | | | | Date Created: | 01-22-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 117952 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071483 Original UID: 189462 FIRST WORD: Coleman | |
| 470: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 January 22 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In April 1992, Jonas Cooks was dragged away from a Chicago home where there had been a party and shot to death in an abandoned building. A Cook County jury convicted McClain Sanders, the petitioner here, of murder and aggravated kidnapping, and he received concurrent terms of 60 and 15 years. Three other individuals were tried separately and also convicted. | | | | Date Created: | 01-22-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 118123 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071484 Original UID: 189463 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 471: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 March 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In a stipulated bench trial in the circuit court of Hancock County, this defendant was found guilty of driving on a suspended license and was sentenced to 24 months of conditional discharge and 90 days in the county jail. His motion to suppress evidence had been denied. | | | | Date Created: | 03-24-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 118181 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071485 Original UID: 189464 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 472: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 January 22 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The appeals in this Williamson County case concern a discovery order in a medical malpractice action for the alleged negligent credentialing of a doctor. No trial has yet occurred. The plaintiffs served discovery requests on the defendant hospitals. | | | | Date Created: | 01-22-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 118217 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071488 Original UID: 189468 FIRST WORD: Klaine | |
| 473: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 January 22 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Tazewell County defendant was brought to trial in 2012 on a Class 2 felony charge of unlawful delivery of less than one gram of cocaine. The circuit court admonished him that, in view of his criminal record, the maximum sentence he could receive was 60 years. He negotiated with the State and pled guilty in return for a sentencing cap of 25 years, which was what he was sentenced to. | | | | Date Created: | 01-22-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 118375 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071489 Original UID: 189469 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 474: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 March 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In this public employee union case, the Illinois Supreme Court held that multiyear collective bargaining agreements are subject to the appropriation power of the State, a power which may only be exercised by the General Assembly. | | | | Date Created: | 03-24-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 118422 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071490 Original UID: 189470 FIRST WORD: State | |
| 475: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 January 22 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | On a late May evening in 2008, Jason Gill, who was sitting with a female companion on the front steps of his Chicago home, was fatally shot by a man who approached the porch and opened fire. | | | | Date Created: | 01-22-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 118496 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071493 Original UID: 189473 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 476: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 February 4 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Plaintiff, who was working as a tower planner at OHare Airport, had been employed by American Airlines for almost 24 years when she received a termination letter in January of 2012. Her application for unemployment insurance benefits was denied after American filed a protest, claiming that the termination was for misconduct at work. | | | | Date Created: | 02-04-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 118562 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071494 Original UID: 189474 FIRST WORD: Petrovic | |
| 477: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 February 26 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 1997, a Chicago woman was found stabbed to death in her bathtub. A bloody palm print was on the wall. The blood was her own, but the maker of the print was not identified, and the case remained unsolved. In 2004, a Cook County prosecutor appeared before a grand jury, requesting a subpoena in the cold case for the palm prints of Jerry Boston, who was then incarcerated on a natural life sentence for armed robbery. | | | | Date Created: | 02-26-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 118661 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071496 Original UID: 189477 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 478: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 January 22 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Defendant, Jeremy Thompson, was convicted of violating the Methamphetamine Controland Community Protection Act (Act) (720 ILCS 646/25(a)(2), (d)(2) (West 2010)) following ajury trial in which the circuit court of Hamilton County admitted lay opinion identificationtestimony of four witnesses pursuant to Illinois Rule of Evidence 701 (eff. Jan. 1, 2011). | | | | Date Created: | 01-22-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 118667 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071497 Original UID: 189478 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 479: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 March 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Following a bench trial, the circuit court of McLean County convicted the defendant, JesseBradford, of burglary and sentenced him to three years in prison. On appeal, defendantcontended the State failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he remained within a storewithout authority and with the intent to commit a theft therein, within the meaning of theburglary statute. | | | | Date Created: | 04-24-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 118674 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071498 Original UID: 189479 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 480: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 January 22 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In two separate 2012 jury trials, this defendant was convicted of unlawful possession of vehicle titles and possession of a stolen vehicle, both based on evidence found at his Will County home. | | | | Date Created: | 01-22-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | 118693 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000071499 Original UID: 189480 FIRST WORD: People | |
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