Writing for a unanimous panel, Justice Hyman of the Illinois Appellate Court on Tuesday held that a murder defendant must be resentenced after the trial court improperly relied on a void weapons conviction, declaring that 'Illinois courts may not use void j...
Justice Oden Johnson, writing for a three-judge Illinois Appellate Court panel on Thursday, ordered a new trial for Chancellor Aaron, who was convicted of first degree murder in 2005, after finding that the key witness's recantation 'undermines the court's...
Writing for a unanimous panel, Justice Anderson, joined by Justice Peterson and Justice Davenport, on Tuesday held that the Will County Sheriff's Office did not violate a domestic violence defendant's due process rights when it destroyed a flammable contain...