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1 | AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by changing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Sections 12-2, 12-4, and 12-14 and by adding Sections 2-10.4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | and 2-10.5 as follows: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | (720 ILCS 5/2-10.4 new)
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8 | Sec. 2-10.4. Mentally handicapped person. "Mentally | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | handicapped person" means a person who suffers from a | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | disability that is attributable to: (1) mental retardation, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | cerebral palsy, epilepsy or autism; or to (2) any other | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | condition that results in impairment similar to that caused by | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | mental retardation and that requires services similar to those | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | required by mentally retarded persons. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | (720 ILCS 5/2-10.5 new)
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16 | Sec. 2-10.5. Mental retardation. "Mental retardation" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | means significantly subaverage general intellectual | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | functioning that exists concurrently with impairment in | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | adaptive behavior.
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20 | (720 ILCS 5/12-2) (from Ch. 38, par. 12-2)
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21 | Sec. 12-2. Aggravated assault.
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22 | (a) A person commits an aggravated assault, when, in | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | committing an
assault, he:
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24 | (1) Uses a deadly weapon or any device manufactured and | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | designed to be
substantially similar in appearance to a | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | firearm, other than by
discharging a firearm in the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | direction of another person, a peace
officer, a person | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
28 | summoned or directed by a peace officer, a correctional
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29 | officer or a fireman or in the direction of a vehicle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
30 | occupied by another
person, a peace officer, a person |
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1 | summoned or directed by a peace officer,
a correctional | ||||||
2 | officer or a fireman while the officer or fireman is
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3 | engaged in the execution of any of his official duties, or | ||||||
4 | to prevent the
officer or fireman from performing his | ||||||
5 | official duties, or in retaliation
for the officer or | ||||||
6 | fireman performing his official duties;
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7 | (2) Is hooded, robed or masked in such manner as to | ||||||
8 | conceal his
identity or any device manufactured and | ||||||
9 | designed to be substantially
similar in appearance to a | ||||||
10 | firearm;
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11 | (3) Knows the individual assaulted to be a teacher or | ||||||
12 | other person
employed in any school and such teacher or | ||||||
13 | other employee is upon the
grounds of a school or grounds | ||||||
14 | adjacent thereto, or is in any part of a
building used for | ||||||
15 | school purposes;
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16 | (4) Knows the individual assaulted to be a supervisor, | ||||||
17 | director,
instructor or other person employed in any park | ||||||
18 | district and such
supervisor, director, instructor or | ||||||
19 | other employee is upon the grounds of
the park or grounds | ||||||
20 | adjacent thereto, or is in any part of a building used
for | ||||||
21 | park purposes;
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22 | (5) Knows the individual assaulted to be a caseworker, | ||||||
23 | investigator, or
other person employed by the State | ||||||
24 | Department of Public Aid, a
County
Department of Public | ||||||
25 | Aid, or the Department of Human Services (acting as
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26 | successor to the Illinois Department of Public Aid under | ||||||
27 | the Department of
Human Services Act) and such caseworker, | ||||||
28 | investigator, or other person
is upon the grounds of a | ||||||
29 | public aid office or grounds adjacent thereto, or
is in any | ||||||
30 | part of a building used for public aid purposes, or upon | ||||||
31 | the
grounds of a home of a public aid applicant, recipient | ||||||
32 | or any other person
being interviewed or investigated in | ||||||
33 | the employees' discharge of his
duties, or on grounds | ||||||
34 | adjacent thereto, or is in any part of a building in
which | ||||||
35 | the applicant, recipient, or other such person resides or | ||||||
36 | is located;
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1 | (6) Knows the individual assaulted to be a peace | ||||||
2 | officer, or a community
policing volunteer, or a fireman
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3 | while the officer or fireman is engaged in the execution of | ||||||
4 | any of his
official duties, or to prevent the officer, | ||||||
5 | community policing volunteer,
or fireman from performing
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6 | his official duties, or in retaliation for the officer, | ||||||
7 | community policing
volunteer, or fireman
performing his | ||||||
8 | official duties, and the assault is committed other than by
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9 | the discharge of a firearm in the direction of the officer | ||||||
10 | or fireman or
in the direction of a vehicle occupied by the | ||||||
11 | officer or fireman;
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12 | (7) Knows the individual assaulted to be
an emergency | ||||||
13 | medical technician - ambulance, emergency medical
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14 | technician - intermediate, emergency medical technician - | ||||||
15 | paramedic, ambulance
driver or other medical
assistance or | ||||||
16 | first aid personnel engaged in the
execution of any of his | ||||||
17 | official duties, or to prevent the
emergency medical | ||||||
18 | technician - ambulance, emergency medical
technician - | ||||||
19 | intermediate, emergency medical technician - paramedic,
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20 | ambulance driver, or other medical assistance or first aid | ||||||
21 | personnel from
performing his official duties, or in | ||||||
22 | retaliation for the
emergency medical technician - | ||||||
23 | ambulance, emergency medical
technician - intermediate, | ||||||
24 | emergency medical technician - paramedic,
ambulance | ||||||
25 | driver, or other medical assistance or first aid personnel
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26 | performing his official duties;
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27 | (8) Knows the individual assaulted to be the driver, | ||||||
28 | operator, employee
or passenger of any transportation | ||||||
29 | facility or system engaged in the
business of | ||||||
30 | transportation of the public for hire and the individual
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31 | assaulted is then performing in such capacity or then using | ||||||
32 | such public
transportation as a passenger or using any area | ||||||
33 | of any description
designated by the transportation | ||||||
34 | facility or system as a vehicle boarding,
departure, or | ||||||
35 | transfer location;
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36 | (9) Or the individual assaulted is on or about a public |
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1 | way, public
property, or public place of accommodation or | ||||||
2 | amusement;
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3 | (10) Knows the individual assaulted to be an employee | ||||||
4 | of the State of
Illinois, a municipal corporation therein | ||||||
5 | or a political subdivision
thereof, engaged in the | ||||||
6 | performance of his authorized duties as such
employee;
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7 | (11) Knowingly and without legal justification, | ||||||
8 | commits an assault on
a physically handicapped person or on | ||||||
9 | a mentally handicapped person ;
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10 | (12) Knowingly and without legal justification, | ||||||
11 | commits an assault on a
person 60 years of age or older;
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12 | (13) Discharges a firearm;
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13 | (14) Knows the individual assaulted to be a | ||||||
14 | correctional officer, while
the officer is engaged in the | ||||||
15 | execution of any of his or her official duties,
or to | ||||||
16 | prevent the officer from performing his or her official | ||||||
17 | duties, or in
retaliation for the officer performing his or | ||||||
18 | her official duties;
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19 | (15) Knows the individual assaulted to be a | ||||||
20 | correctional employee or
an employee of the Department of | ||||||
21 | Human Services supervising or controlling
sexually | ||||||
22 | dangerous persons or sexually violent persons, while
the | ||||||
23 | employee is engaged in the execution of any of his or her | ||||||
24 | official duties,
or to prevent the employee from performing | ||||||
25 | his or her official duties, or in
retaliation for the | ||||||
26 | employee performing his or her official duties, and the
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27 | assault is committed other than by the discharge of a | ||||||
28 | firearm in the direction
of the employee or in the | ||||||
29 | direction of a vehicle occupied by the employee;
or
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30 | (16) Knows the individual assaulted to be an employee | ||||||
31 | of a police or
sheriff's department engaged in the | ||||||
32 | performance of his or her official duties
as such employee.
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33 | (a-5) A person commits an aggravated assault when he or she | ||||||
34 | knowingly and
without lawful justification shines or flashes a | ||||||
35 | laser gunsight or other laser
device that is attached or | ||||||
36 | affixed to a firearm, or used in concert with a
firearm, so |
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1 | that the laser beam strikes near or in the immediate vicinity | ||||||
2 | of
any person.
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3 | (b) Sentence.
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4 | Aggravated assault as defined in paragraphs (1) through (5) | ||||||
5 | and (8) through
(12) of subsection (a) of this Section is a | ||||||
6 | Class A misdemeanor. Aggravated
assault as defined in | ||||||
7 | paragraphs (13), (14), and (15) of subsection (a) of this
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8 | Section and as defined in subsection (a-5) of this Section is a | ||||||
9 | Class 4
felony. Aggravated assault as defined in paragraphs
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10 | (6), (7), and (16) of
subsection (a) of this Section is a Class | ||||||
11 | A misdemeanor if a firearm is not
used in the commission of the | ||||||
12 | assault. Aggravated assault as defined in
paragraphs (6), (7), | ||||||
13 | and (16) of subsection (a) of this
Section is a Class 4 felony | ||||||
14 | if a firearm is used in the commission of the
assault.
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15 | (Source: P.A. 91-672, eff. 1-1-00; 92-841, eff. 8-22-02; | ||||||
16 | 92-865, eff.
1-3-03; revised 1-9-03.)
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17 | (720 ILCS 5/12-4) (from Ch. 38, par. 12-4)
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18 | Sec. 12-4. Aggravated Battery.
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19 | (a) A person who, in committing a battery, intentionally or | ||||||
20 | knowingly
causes great bodily harm, or permanent disability or | ||||||
21 | disfigurement commits
aggravated battery.
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22 | (b) In committing a battery, a person commits aggravated | ||||||
23 | battery if he or
she:
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24 | (1) Uses a deadly weapon other than by the discharge of | ||||||
25 | a firearm;
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26 | (2) Is hooded, robed or masked, in such manner as to | ||||||
27 | conceal his
identity;
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28 | (3) Knows the individual harmed to be a teacher or | ||||||
29 | other person
employed in any school and such teacher or | ||||||
30 | other employee is upon the
grounds of a school or grounds | ||||||
31 | adjacent thereto, or is in any part of a
building used for | ||||||
32 | school purposes;
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33 | (4) Knows the individual harmed to be a supervisor, | ||||||
34 | director,
instructor or other person employed in any park | ||||||
35 | district and such
supervisor, director, instructor or |
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1 | other employee is upon the grounds
of the park or grounds | ||||||
2 | adjacent thereto, or is in any part of a building
used for | ||||||
3 | park purposes;
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4 | (5) Knows the individual harmed to be a caseworker, | ||||||
5 | investigator, or
other person employed by the State | ||||||
6 | Department of Public Aid, a County
Department of Public | ||||||
7 | Aid, or the Department of Human Services (acting as
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8 | successor to the Illinois Department of Public Aid under | ||||||
9 | the Department of
Human Services Act) and such caseworker, | ||||||
10 | investigator, or other
person is upon the grounds of a | ||||||
11 | public aid office or grounds adjacent
thereto, or is in any | ||||||
12 | part of a building used for public aid purposes,
or upon | ||||||
13 | the grounds of a home of a public aid applicant, recipient, | ||||||
14 | or
any other person being interviewed or investigated in | ||||||
15 | the employee's
discharge of his duties, or on grounds | ||||||
16 | adjacent thereto, or is in any
part of a building in which | ||||||
17 | the applicant, recipient, or other such
person resides or | ||||||
18 | is located;
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19 | (6) Knows the individual harmed to be a peace officer, | ||||||
20 | a community
policing volunteer, a correctional institution | ||||||
21 | employee, an employee
of the Department of Human Services | ||||||
22 | supervising or controlling sexually
dangerous persons or | ||||||
23 | sexually violent persons, or a fireman while
such officer, | ||||||
24 | volunteer, employee or fireman is engaged in the execution | ||||||
25 | of
any official duties including arrest or attempted | ||||||
26 | arrest, or to prevent the
officer, volunteer, employee or | ||||||
27 | fireman from performing official duties, or in
retaliation | ||||||
28 | for the officer, volunteer, employee or fireman performing | ||||||
29 | official
duties, and the battery is committed other than by | ||||||
30 | the discharge of a firearm;
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31 | (7) Knows the individual harmed to be an emergency | ||||||
32 | medical technician -
ambulance, emergency medical | ||||||
33 | technician - intermediate, emergency medical
technician - | ||||||
34 | paramedic, ambulance driver, other medical assistance, | ||||||
35 | first
aid personnel, or hospital personnel engaged in the
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36 | performance of any of his or her official duties,
or to |
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1 | prevent the emergency medical technician - ambulance, | ||||||
2 | emergency medical
technician - intermediate, emergency | ||||||
3 | medical technician - paramedic, ambulance
driver, other | ||||||
4 | medical assistance, first aid personnel, or
hospital | ||||||
5 | personnel from performing
official duties, or in | ||||||
6 | retaliation for performing official duties;
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7 | (8) Is, or the person battered is, on or about a public | ||||||
8 | way, public
property or public place of accommodation or | ||||||
9 | amusement;
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10 | (9) Knows the individual harmed to be the driver, | ||||||
11 | operator, employee
or passenger of any transportation | ||||||
12 | facility or system engaged in the
business of | ||||||
13 | transportation of the public for hire and the individual
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14 | assaulted is then performing in such capacity or then using | ||||||
15 | such public
transportation as a passenger or using any area | ||||||
16 | of any description
designated by the transportation | ||||||
17 | facility or system as a vehicle
boarding, departure, or | ||||||
18 | transfer location;
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19 | (10) Knowingly and without legal justification and by | ||||||
20 | any means
causes bodily harm to an individual of 60 years | ||||||
21 | of age or older;
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22 | (11) Knows the individual harmed is pregnant;
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23 | (12) Knows the individual harmed to be a judge whom the
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24 | person intended to harm as a result of the judge's | ||||||
25 | performance of his or
her official duties as a judge;
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26 | (13) Knows the individual harmed to be an employee of | ||||||
27 | the Illinois
Department of Children and Family Services | ||||||
28 | engaged in the performance of
his authorized duties as such | ||||||
29 | employee;
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30 | (14) Knows the individual harmed to be a person who is | ||||||
31 | physically
handicapped or mentally handicapped ;
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32 | (15) Knowingly and without legal justification and by | ||||||
33 | any means causes
bodily harm to a merchant who detains the | ||||||
34 | person for an alleged commission of
retail theft under | ||||||
35 | Section 16A-5 of this Code.
In this item (15), "merchant" | ||||||
36 | has the meaning ascribed to it in Section
16A-2.4 of this |
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1 | Code;
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2 | (16) Is, or the person battered is, in any building or | ||||||
3 | other structure
used to provide shelter or other services | ||||||
4 | to victims or to the dependent
children of victims of | ||||||
5 | domestic violence pursuant to the Illinois Domestic
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6 | Violence Act of 1986 or the Domestic Violence Shelters Act, | ||||||
7 | or the person
battered is within 500 feet of such a | ||||||
8 | building or other structure while going
to or from such a | ||||||
9 | building or other structure. "Domestic violence" has the
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10 | meaning ascribed to it in Section 103 of the Illinois | ||||||
11 | Domestic Violence Act of
1986. "Building or other structure | ||||||
12 | used to provide shelter" has the meaning
ascribed to | ||||||
13 | "shelter" in Section 1 of the Domestic Violence Shelters | ||||||
14 | Act; or
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15 | (17) Knows the individual harmed to be an employee of a | ||||||
16 | police or
sheriff's department engaged in the performance | ||||||
17 | of his or her official duties
as such employee.
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18 | For the purpose of paragraph (14) of subsection (b) of this | ||||||
19 | Section, a
physically handicapped person is a person who | ||||||
20 | suffers from a permanent and
disabling physical | ||||||
21 | characteristic, resulting from disease, injury,
functional | ||||||
22 | disorder or congenital condition.
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23 | (c) A person who administers to an individual or causes him | ||||||
24 | to take,
without his consent or by threat or deception, and for | ||||||
25 | other than
medical purposes, any intoxicating, poisonous, | ||||||
26 | stupefying, narcotic,
anesthetic, or controlled substance | ||||||
27 | commits aggravated battery.
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28 | (d) A person who knowingly gives to another person any food | ||||||
29 | that
contains any substance or object that is intended to cause | ||||||
30 | physical
injury if eaten, commits aggravated battery.
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31 | (d-3) A person commits aggravated battery when he or she | ||||||
32 | knowingly and
without lawful justification shines or flashes a | ||||||
33 | laser gunsight or other laser
device that is attached or | ||||||
34 | affixed to a firearm, or used in concert with a
firearm, so | ||||||
35 | that the laser beam strikes upon or against the person of | ||||||
36 | another.
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1 | (d-5) An inmate of a penal institution or a sexually | ||||||
2 | dangerous person or a
sexually violent person in the custody of | ||||||
3 | the Department of Human Services
who causes or attempts to | ||||||
4 | cause a
correctional employee of the penal institution or an | ||||||
5 | employee of the
Department of Human Services to come into | ||||||
6 | contact with blood,
seminal fluid, urine, or feces, by | ||||||
7 | throwing, tossing, or expelling that fluid
or material commits | ||||||
8 | aggravated battery. For purposes of this subsection (d-5),
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9 | "correctional employee" means a person who is employed by a | ||||||
10 | penal institution.
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11 | (e) Sentence.
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12 | Aggravated battery is a Class 3 felony, except a violation | ||||||
13 | of subsection (a)
is a Class 2 felony when the person knows the | ||||||
14 | individual harmed to be a peace
officer engaged in the | ||||||
15 | execution of any of his or her official duties, or the
battery | ||||||
16 | is to prevent the officer from performing his or her official | ||||||
17 | duties,
or in retaliation for the officer performing his or her | ||||||
18 | official duties.
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19 | (Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01; 92-516, eff. 1-1-02; 92-841, | ||||||
20 | eff.
8-22-02; 92-865, eff. 1-3-03; 93-83, eff. 7-2-03.)
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21 | (720 ILCS 5/12-14) (from Ch. 38, par. 12-14)
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22 | Sec. 12-14. Aggravated Criminal Sexual Assault.
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23 | (a) The accused commits
aggravated criminal sexual assault | ||||||
24 | if he or she commits criminal sexual
assault and any of the | ||||||
25 | following aggravating circumstances existed during, or
for the | ||||||
26 | purposes of paragraph (7) of this subsection (a)
as part of the | ||||||
27 | same course of conduct as, the commission of the offense:
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28 | (1) the accused displayed, threatened to use, or used a | ||||||
29 | dangerous
weapon, other than a firearm, or any object | ||||||
30 | fashioned or utilized in such a
manner as to lead the | ||||||
31 | victim under the circumstances reasonably to believe it
to | ||||||
32 | be a dangerous weapon; or
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33 | (2) the accused caused bodily harm, except as provided | ||||||
34 | in subsection
(a)(10), to the victim; or
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35 | (3) the accused acted in such a manner as to threaten |
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1 | or endanger the
life of the victim or any other person; or
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2 | (4) the criminal sexual assault was perpetrated during | ||||||
3 | the course of
the commission or attempted commission of any | ||||||
4 | other felony by the accused; or
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5 | (5) the victim was 60 years of age or over when the | ||||||
6 | offense was committed;
or
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7 | (6) the victim was a physically handicapped person or a | ||||||
8 | mentally handicapped person ; or
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9 | (7) the accused delivered (by injection, inhalation, | ||||||
10 | ingestion, transfer
of possession, or any other means) to | ||||||
11 | the victim without his or her consent, or
by threat or | ||||||
12 | deception, and for other than medical purposes, any | ||||||
13 | controlled
substance; or
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14 | (8) the accused was armed with a firearm; or
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15 | (9) the accused personally discharged a firearm during | ||||||
16 | the commission of
the offense; or
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17 | (10) the accused, during the commission of the offense, | ||||||
18 | personally
discharged a firearm that proximately caused | ||||||
19 | great bodily harm, permanent
disability, permanent | ||||||
20 | disfigurement, or death to another person.
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21 | (b) The accused commits aggravated criminal sexual assault | ||||||
22 | if
the accused was under 17 years of age and (i) commits an act | ||||||
23 | of
sexual penetration with a victim who was under 9 years of | ||||||
24 | age when the act
was committed; or (ii) commits an act of | ||||||
25 | sexual penetration with a victim
who was at least 9 years of | ||||||
26 | age but under 13 years of age when the act was
committed and | ||||||
27 | the accused used force or threat of force to commit the act.
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28 | (c) The accused commits aggravated criminal sexual assault | ||||||
29 | if he or
she commits an act of sexual penetration with a victim | ||||||
30 | who was a severely or
profoundly mentally retarded person at | ||||||
31 | the
time the act was committed.
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32 | (d) Sentence.
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33 | (1) Aggravated criminal sexual assault in violation of | ||||||
34 | paragraph
(2), (3), (4), (5), (6), or (7) of subsection (a) | ||||||
35 | or in violation of
subsection (b) or
(c) is a Class X | ||||||
36 | felony.
A violation of subsection (a)(1) is a Class X |
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1 | felony for which 10 years shall
be added to the term of | ||||||
2 | imprisonment imposed by the court. A violation of
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3 | subsection (a)(8) is a Class X felony for which 15 years | ||||||
4 | shall be added to the
term of imprisonment imposed by the | ||||||
5 | court. A violation of
subsection (a)(9) is a Class X felony | ||||||
6 | for which 20 years shall be added to the
term of | ||||||
7 | imprisonment imposed by the court. A violation of | ||||||
8 | subsection (a)(10) is
a Class X felony for which 25 years | ||||||
9 | or up to a term of natural life
imprisonment shall be added | ||||||
10 | to
the term of imprisonment imposed by the court.
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11 | (2) A person who is convicted of a second or subsequent | ||||||
12 | offense of
aggravated criminal sexual assault, or who is | ||||||
13 | convicted of the offense of
aggravated
criminal sexual | ||||||
14 | assault after having previously been convicted of the | ||||||
15 | offense
of criminal sexual assault or the offense of | ||||||
16 | predatory criminal sexual assault
of a child, or who is | ||||||
17 | convicted of the offense of aggravated criminal sexual
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18 | assault after having previously been convicted under the | ||||||
19 | laws of this or any
other state of an offense that is | ||||||
20 | substantially equivalent to the offense of
criminal sexual
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21 | assault, the offense of aggravated criminal sexual assault | ||||||
22 | or the offense of
predatory criminal sexual assault of a | ||||||
23 | child, shall be sentenced to a term of
natural life | ||||||
24 | imprisonment.
The commission of the second or subsequent | ||||||
25 | offense is required to have been
after the initial | ||||||
26 | conviction for this paragraph (2) to apply.
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27 | (Source: P.A. 91-404, eff. 1-1-00; 92-434, eff. 1-1-02; 92-502, | ||||||
28 | eff.
12-19-01; 92-721, eff. 1-1-03.)
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29 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
30 | becoming law.
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