The Crime Report

JUNE 15, 2021

Even as legal weed sales in Illinois continue to shatter records nearly 18 months after kicking off, the illicit pot trade is still dominating a total statewide market some experts have valued at over $4 billion, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. estimates that black market pot sales in Illinois will top $2.2 billion this year.

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The Crime Report

JULY 29, 2022

Nearly 20,000 Cook County, Illinois residents are walking around with revoked firearm owner’s identification cards, with illegal guns presumably in their homes, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Of those 20,000 with revoked cards, a little over 1,800 are subjects of “clear and present danger” reports compiled by the Illinois State Police.

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The Crime Report

MAY 12, 2022

A 36-year-old man walked out of an Illinois prison last May in a pair of joggers and a T-shirt. If we’re Number 1, it must be really bad for other states, because it’s rough enough here in Illinois,” Cook said. It ranked Illinois as No. Coming off a 10-year prison sentence, he had no money. 1 for the second year in a row.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

As the holiday shopping season approaches, a string of “smash-and-grab” robberies have hit luxury retailers in California and Illinois, leaving authorities shocked by the brazen nature of the thefts that have involved sometimes dozens of people at a time, reports Reuters. The Los Angeles Times reports that San Francisco Dist.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

So-called “second chance laws” involving felony charges often take longer to clear than misdemeanors. In addition, as part of the law, former offenders don’t have to check yes when asked if they’ve committed a felony, which often works as a barrier for formerly incarcerated people.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Lee Enterprises , along with Capitol News Illinois. On a chilly November morning in 2019, Lutrice Williams, a patient at a state-run mental health center in southern Illinois, was surprised by a visit from a sheriff’s deputy.

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The Crime Report

MAY 20, 2021

Most states have no rules, and someone just out of law school could handle a life-without-parole case in Illinois or Nebraska. In Texas, there’s a continuing dispute over whether the standards for death penalty defense apply if prosecutors seek life without parole instead. But the standards have yet to be approved by other state regulators.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Only three committed a felony crime against a person. The study based its estimates on an analysis of people released after serving prison sentences of 10 years or more in Illinois. The study found that reducing sentences of over 10 years by one year could reduce Illinois’s average daily prison population by 1.3

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The Crime Report

MAY 24, 2021

Chester Weger was convicted in 1961 of the notorious “Starved Rock Murders, ” in which three women were brutally killed and their bodies left in a park located in LaSalle County, Illinois about two hours southwest of Chicago. Thus, Chester was charged with three separate felonies as a way to overwhelm him and break him down.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The cross-examination of a former ComEd executive who wore a wire for the government as it built its corruption case against ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan veered Wednesday into the informant's messy divorce proceedings and his failure to disclose felony charges when trying to buy a gun to kill snakes, as Madigan's attorneys tried to call (..)

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 25, 2022

See Also: Illinois Lawmakers Weigh Voting Rights for People Behind Bars. Arizona also repealed a law authorizing suspension of driver’s licenses for failure to pay and authorized its courts to redesignate some felonies as misdemeanors, the report details. . Reintegration Awards.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 27, 2022

For example, in Illinois, North Carolina and Texas, licensure boards are prohibited from considering arrests that failed to result in a conviction. States have implemented a variety of fair chance licensing reforms in recent years.

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The Crime Report

JULY 16, 2021

Misinformation around voting rights is rampant among people in the criminal justice system, said Brian Harrington, 29, who was released from prison in Illinois last April after 13 years of incarceration. Twenty-one states, including Illinois, reinstate voting rights for people with felony convictions after they leave prison.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 27, 2022

According to the Transforming School Discipline Collaborative , Illinois had 340,644 suspensions, expulsions and transfers to alternative schools in place of other disciplinary measures. When students are caught possessing drugs, they are not arrested unless they have enough to constitute a felony.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 18, 2024

Louisiana that the Sixth Amendment (as incorporated against the states by the 14th Amendment) guarantees criminal defendants the right to a unanimous jury, it meant a 12-person jury — not a six-person jury, which is all that Florida affords some felony defendants. Maryland and Napue v.

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At the Lectern

JUNE 26, 2024

” The defendant argued the superior court improperly admitted testimony of an under-qualified prosecution expert witness.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Of the 1,385,258 people in prison for felony convictions in 2019, it is estimated one to five percent—or between 13,853 and 69,263 people—at the end of 2019 were in prison for crimes they did not commit. Illinois was the first state government to take an interest in identifying solutions to wrongful conviction.

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At the Lectern

JULY 25, 2024

Supreme Court opinion in Illinois v. The 2018 legislation limited criminal liability for felony murder, eliminated it for murder under the natural-and-probable-consequences doctrine, and allowed possible resentencing for those convicted under pre-SB 1437 law. Finding nothing wrong with the practice and extrapolating from the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 2, 2024

The justices turned down a group of challenges to an Illinois law and three municipal ordinances that seek to regulate assault weapons and high-capacity magazines – ammunition-feeding devices that can carry more than 10 rounds of ammunition.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 3, 2023

We recently discussed a federal judge enjoining the new Illinois law banning “assault weapons.” ” Now a gun shop in Naperville, Illinois has made it to the Supreme Court in seeking injunctive relief and Justice Amy Coney Barrett has given the proponents of the law until Monday to respond to the request.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 6, 2023

side without going through a designated port of entry, that same action becomes a misdemeanor or even a felony , depending on the circumstances. . When someone ‘jaywalks’ from the Mexican side of the border to the U.S.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 4, 2022

” For Nelson, the answer was relocating to Tucson and creating a free online network that connects people in Arizona and Illinois prisons with local service providers. “We did about 10,000 directories, and the state of Illinois’ Department of Corrections (DOC) asked if we could do it for the whole state.”

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 31, 2024

And the court denied review to a group of 13 much-relisted cases that raised the question whether felony defendants have a constitutional right to a 12-person jury rather than just a six-person one. Raoul , 23-879 Issue : Whether Illinois’ sweeping ban on common and long-lawful arms violates the Second Amendment.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 30, 2021

With New Jersey’s legislation—following on the heels of laws enacted in 2019 in Colorado, Illinois and New York, legislation in D.C. See the Illinois profile for more details. in 2017, and a slew of local ordinances since 2016— “fair chance housing” has arrived on the national reintegration agenda.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

On January 1, a laundry list of laws impacting the Illinois criminal justice system will go into effect, including one eliminating the state’s cash bail system, making it the first in the nation to completely get rid of cash bail. The issue the law is hoping to tackle is a national one, with the U.S.

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2009

The 2010 political broadcasting season is off to a fast start, with a controversy already erupting in connection with the Illinois Senate race to fill the seat once held by President Obama. Illinois has one of the first primaries in the nation for the 2010 election, to be held on February 2, 2010.

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The Crime Report

MAY 4, 2022

A 2013 study that examined 413 civil and criminal cases brought forward after Roe found that Black women were “significantly more likely to be arrested, reported to state authorities by hospital staff, and subjected to felony charges,” according to VICE News. If this decision holds, it’s really quite a radical decision.”.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2024

And over a dissent by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the justices declined to decide whether the Constitution guarantees the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony. The question came to the court in the case of Natoya Cunningham , who was convicted by a six-person jury and sentenced to eight years in prison.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2024

Assault weapons In early 2023, Illinois adopted the Protect Illinois Communities Act, which prohibits the possession of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Several Illinois municipalities adopted similar legislation. City of Naperville, Illinois , Langley v. In a consolidated appeal, a divided panel of the U.S.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The US Department of Justice sued the state of Illinois, Governor J.B. The primary legal justification the DOJ cites against the Illinois laws springs from the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause. As a result, many cities and states across the US have adopted “ sanctuary city ” policies similar to Illinois.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

He had been convicted of misdemeanor trespass and felony criminal mischief and conspiracy to commit criminal mischief in October 2017. A second activist who filmed the action was convicted of felony conspiracy to commit criminal mischief and conspiracy trespass, a misdemeanor. 6, 2018; petitioners’ response Feb.

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