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State of Illinois
2013 and 2014 SB2275 Introduced 2/15/2013, by Sen. Kirk W. Dillard SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
| 720 ILCS 5/8-4 | from Ch. 38, par. 8-4 | 720 ILCS 5/9-1 | from Ch. 38, par. 9-1 | 730 ILCS 5/5-8-1 | from Ch. 38, par. 1005-8-1 | 725 ILCS 5/119-1 rep. | |
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Amends the Criminal Code of 2012 and the Unified Code of Corrections. Changes and limits the aggravating factors for which a person convicted of first degree murder may be sentenced to death. Provides for aggravating factors in which a person may be sentenced to natural life imprisonment. Provides that some aggravating factors for which the defendant may have been sentenced to death before the effective date of the amendatory Act may only be considered in determining whether the defendant may be sentenced to natural life imprisonment. Repeals provision that abolishes the death penalty.
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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 2012 is amended by changing |
5 | | Sections 8-4 and 9-1 as follows:
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6 | | (720 ILCS 5/8-4) (from Ch. 38, par. 8-4)
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7 | | Sec. 8-4. Attempt.
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8 | | (a) Elements of the offense.
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9 | | A person commits the offense of attempt when, with intent |
10 | | to commit a specific
offense, he or she does any act that |
11 | | constitutes a substantial step toward the
commission of that |
12 | | offense.
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13 | | (b) Impossibility.
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14 | | It is not a defense to a charge of attempt that because of |
15 | | a
misapprehension of the circumstances it would have been |
16 | | impossible for
the accused to commit the offense attempted.
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17 | | (c) Sentence.
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18 | | A person convicted of attempt may be fined or imprisoned or |
19 | | both
not to exceed the maximum provided for the offense |
20 | | attempted but, except
for an attempt to commit the offense |
21 | | defined in Section 33A-2 of this Code:
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22 | | (1) the sentence for attempt to commit first degree |
23 | | murder is the
sentence for a Class X felony, except that
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1 | | (A) an attempt to commit first
degree murder when |
2 | | at least one of the aggravating factors specified in |
3 | | paragraph
paragraphs (1) , (2), and (12) of subsection |
4 | | (b) and in paragraph (1) of subsection (c) of Section |
5 | | 9-1 is present is
a Class X felony for which the |
6 | | sentence shall be a term of imprisonment of
not less |
7 | | than 20 years and not more than 80 years;
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8 | | (B) an attempt to commit first degree murder while |
9 | | armed with a
firearm is a Class X felony for which 15 |
10 | | years shall be added to the term of
imprisonment |
11 | | imposed by the court;
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12 | | (C) an attempt to commit first degree murder during |
13 | | which the person
personally discharged a firearm is a |
14 | | Class X felony for which 20 years
shall be added to the |
15 | | term of imprisonment imposed by the court;
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16 | | (D) an attempt to commit first degree murder during |
17 | | which the person
personally discharged a firearm that |
18 | | proximately caused great bodily harm,
permanent |
19 | | disability, permanent disfigurement, or death to
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20 | | another person is a Class X felony for which 25 years |
21 | | or up to a term of
natural life shall be added to the |
22 | | term of imprisonment imposed by the court; and
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23 | | (E) if the defendant proves by a preponderance of |
24 | | the evidence at sentencing that, at the time of the |
25 | | attempted murder, he or she was acting under a sudden |
26 | | and intense passion resulting from serious provocation |
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1 | | by the individual whom the defendant endeavored to |
2 | | kill, or another, and, had the individual the defendant |
3 | | endeavored to kill died, the defendant would have |
4 | | negligently or accidentally caused that death, then |
5 | | the sentence for the attempted murder is the sentence |
6 | | for a Class 1 felony;
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7 | | (2) the sentence for attempt to commit a Class X felony |
8 | | is the sentence
for a Class 1 felony;
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9 | | (3) the sentence for attempt to commit a Class 1 felony |
10 | | is the sentence
for a Class 2 felony;
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11 | | (4) the sentence for attempt to commit a Class 2 felony |
12 | | is the sentence
for a Class 3 felony; and
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13 | | (5) the sentence for attempt to commit any felony other |
14 | | than those
specified in items (1), (2), (3), and (4) of |
15 | | this subsection (c) is
the sentence for a Class A |
16 | | misdemeanor.
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17 | | (Source: P.A. 96-710, eff. 1-1-10.)
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18 | | (720 ILCS 5/9-1) (from Ch. 38, par. 9-1) |
19 | | Sec. 9-1. First degree Murder - Death penalties - |
20 | | Exceptions - Separate
Hearings - Proof - Findings - Appellate |
21 | | procedures - Reversals.
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22 | | (a) A person who kills an individual without lawful |
23 | | justification commits
first degree murder if, in performing the |
24 | | acts which cause the death:
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25 | | (1) he either intends to kill or do great bodily harm |
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1 | | to that
individual or another, or knows that such acts will |
2 | | cause death to that
individual or another; or
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3 | | (2) he knows that such acts create a strong probability |
4 | | of death or
great bodily harm to that individual or |
5 | | another; or
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6 | | (3) he is attempting or committing a forcible felony |
7 | | other than
second degree murder.
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8 | | (b) Aggravating Factors ; Death Penalty . A defendant who at |
9 | | the time of the
commission of the offense has attained the age |
10 | | of 18 or more and who has
been found guilty of first degree |
11 | | murder may be sentenced to death if:
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12 | | (1) the murdered individual was a peace officer or an |
13 | | employee of an institution or
facility of the Department of |
14 | | Corrections, or any similar local
correctional agency, or |
15 | | fireman killed in
the course of performing his or her |
16 | | official duties, to prevent the performance
of his or her |
17 | | official duties, or in retaliation for performing his or |
18 | | her official
duties, and the defendant knew or
should have |
19 | | known that the murdered individual was a peace officer or |
20 | | an employee of an institution or
facility of the Department |
21 | | of Corrections, or any similar local
correctional agency or
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22 | | fireman ; or
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23 | | (2) the murdered individual was an employee of an |
24 | | institution or
facility of the Department of Corrections, |
25 | | or any similar local
correctional agency, killed in the |
26 | | course of performing his official
duties, to prevent the |
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1 | | performance of his official duties, or in
retaliation for |
2 | | performing his official duties, or the murdered
individual |
3 | | was an inmate at such institution or facility and was |
4 | | killed on the
grounds thereof, or the murdered individual |
5 | | was otherwise present in such
institution or facility with |
6 | | the knowledge and approval of the chief
administrative |
7 | | officer thereof; or
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8 | | (2) (3) the defendant has been convicted of murdering 2 |
9 | | two or more
individuals under subsection (a) of this |
10 | | Section or under any law of the
United States or of any |
11 | | state which is substantially similar to
subsection (a) of |
12 | | this Section regardless of whether the deaths
occurred as |
13 | | the result of the same act or of several related or
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14 | | unrelated acts so long as the deaths were the result of |
15 | | either an intent
to kill more than one person or of |
16 | | separate acts which
the defendant knew would cause death or |
17 | | create a strong probability of
death or great bodily harm |
18 | | to the murdered individual or another; or
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19 | | (3) the murdered individual was under 12 years of age |
20 | | and the death resulted from exceptionally brutal or heinous |
21 | | behavior indicative of wanton cruelty; or |
22 | | (4) the defendant committed the murder with intent to
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23 | | prevent the murdered individual from testifying or |
24 | | participating in any
criminal investigation or prosecution
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25 | | or giving material assistance to the State in any |
26 | | investigation or
prosecution, either against the defendant |
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1 | | or another; or the defendant
committed the murder because |
2 | | the murdered individual was a witness in any
prosecution or |
3 | | gave material assistance to the State in any investigation
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4 | | or prosecution, either against the defendant or another;
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5 | | for purposes of this paragraph (4), "participating in any |
6 | | criminal
investigation
or prosecution" is intended to |
7 | | include those appearing in the proceedings in
any capacity |
8 | | such as trial judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys,
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9 | | investigators, witnesses, or jurors. |
10 | | (c) Aggravating Factors; Natural Life Imprisonment. A |
11 | | defendant who at the time of the commission of the offense has |
12 | | attained the age of 18 or more and who has been found guilty of |
13 | | first degree murder may be sentenced to natural life |
14 | | imprisonment if: |
15 | | (1) the murdered individual was an inmate of an |
16 | | institution or facility of the Department of Corrections, |
17 | | or any similar local correctional agency, and was killed on |
18 | | the grounds thereof, or the murdered individual was |
19 | | otherwise present in such institution or facility with the |
20 | | knowledge and approval of the chief administrative officer |
21 | | thereof; or |
22 | | (2) (4) the murdered individual was killed as a result |
23 | | of the
hijacking of an airplane, train, ship, bus or other |
24 | | public conveyance; or
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25 | | (3) (5) the defendant committed the murder pursuant to |
26 | | a contract,
agreement or understanding by which he was to |
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1 | | receive money or anything
of value in return for committing |
2 | | the murder or procured another to
commit the murder for |
3 | | money or anything of value; or
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4 | | (4) (6) the murdered individual was killed in the |
5 | | course of another felony if:
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6 | | (a) the murdered individual:
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7 | | (i) was actually killed by the defendant, or
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8 | | (ii) received physical injuries personally |
9 | | inflicted by the defendant
substantially |
10 | | contemporaneously with physical injuries caused by |
11 | | one or
more persons for whose conduct the defendant |
12 | | is legally accountable under
Section 5-2 of this |
13 | | Code, and the physical injuries inflicted by |
14 | | either
the defendant or the other person or persons |
15 | | for whose conduct he or she is legally
accountable |
16 | | caused the death of the murdered individual; and
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17 | | (b) in performing the acts which caused the death |
18 | | of the murdered
individual or which resulted in |
19 | | physical injuries personally inflicted by
the |
20 | | defendant on the murdered individual under the |
21 | | circumstances of
subdivision (ii) of subparagraph (a) |
22 | | of paragraph (4) (6) of subsection (c) (b) of
this |
23 | | Section, the defendant acted with the intent to kill |
24 | | the murdered
individual or with the knowledge that his |
25 | | acts created a strong probability
of death or great |
26 | | bodily harm to the murdered individual or another; and
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1 | | (c) the other felony was an inherently violent |
2 | | crime
or the attempt to commit an inherently
violent |
3 | | crime.
In this subparagraph (c), "inherently violent |
4 | | crime" includes, but is not
limited to, armed robbery, |
5 | | robbery, predatory criminal sexual assault of a
child,
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6 | | aggravated criminal sexual assault, aggravated |
7 | | kidnapping, aggravated vehicular
hijacking,
aggravated |
8 | | arson, aggravated stalking, residential burglary, and |
9 | | home
invasion; or
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10 | | (7) the murdered individual was under 12 years of age |
11 | | and the
death resulted from exceptionally brutal or heinous |
12 | | behavior indicative of
wanton cruelty; or
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13 | | (8) the defendant committed the murder with intent to
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14 | | prevent the murdered individual from testifying or |
15 | | participating in any
criminal investigation or prosecution
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16 | | or giving material assistance to the State in any |
17 | | investigation or
prosecution, either against the defendant |
18 | | or another; or the defendant
committed the murder because |
19 | | the murdered individual was a witness in any
prosecution or |
20 | | gave material assistance to the State in any investigation
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21 | | or prosecution, either against the defendant or another;
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22 | | for purposes of this paragraph (8), "participating in any |
23 | | criminal
investigation
or prosecution" is intended to |
24 | | include those appearing in the proceedings in
any capacity |
25 | | such as trial judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys,
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26 | | investigators, witnesses, or jurors; or
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1 | | (5) (9) the defendant, while committing an offense |
2 | | punishable under
Sections 401, 401.1, 401.2, 405, 405.2, |
3 | | 407 or 407.1 or subsection (b) of
Section
404 of the |
4 | | Illinois Controlled Substances Act, or while engaged in a
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5 | | conspiracy or solicitation to commit such offense, |
6 | | intentionally killed an
individual or counseled, |
7 | | commanded, induced, procured or caused the
intentional |
8 | | killing of the murdered individual; or
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9 | | (6) (10) the defendant was incarcerated in an |
10 | | institution or facility of
the Department of Corrections at |
11 | | the time of the murder, and while
committing an offense |
12 | | punishable as a felony under Illinois law, or while
engaged |
13 | | in a conspiracy or solicitation to commit such offense,
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14 | | intentionally killed an individual or counseled, |
15 | | commanded, induced,
procured or caused the intentional |
16 | | killing of the murdered individual; or
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17 | | (7) (11) the murder was committed in a cold, calculated |
18 | | and premeditated
manner pursuant to a preconceived plan, |
19 | | scheme or design to take a human
life by unlawful means, |
20 | | and the conduct of the defendant created a
reasonable |
21 | | expectation that the death of a human being would result
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22 | | therefrom; or
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23 | | (8) (12) the murdered individual was an emergency |
24 | | medical technician -
ambulance, emergency medical |
25 | | technician - intermediate, emergency medical
technician - |
26 | | paramedic, ambulance driver, fireman, or
other medical |
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1 | | assistance or first aid personnel, employed by a |
2 | | municipality
or other governmental unit, killed in the |
3 | | course of performing his official
duties, to prevent the |
4 | | performance of his official duties, or in retaliation
for |
5 | | performing his official duties, and the defendant knew or |
6 | | should have
known that the murdered individual was an |
7 | | emergency medical technician -
ambulance, emergency |
8 | | medical technician - intermediate, emergency medical
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9 | | technician - paramedic, ambulance driver, fireman, or
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10 | | other medical assistance or first aid personnel; or
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11 | | (9) (13) the defendant was a principal administrator, |
12 | | organizer, or leader
of a calculated criminal drug |
13 | | conspiracy consisting of a hierarchical position
of |
14 | | authority superior to that of all other members of the |
15 | | conspiracy, and the
defendant counseled, commanded, |
16 | | induced, procured, or caused the intentional
killing of the |
17 | | murdered person;
or
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18 | | (10) (14) the murder was intentional and involved the |
19 | | infliction of torture.
For
the purpose of this Section |
20 | | torture means the infliction of or subjection to
extreme |
21 | | physical pain, motivated by an intent to increase or |
22 | | prolong the pain,
suffering or agony of the victim; or
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23 | | (11) (15) the murder was committed as a result of the |
24 | | intentional discharge
of a firearm by the defendant from a |
25 | | motor vehicle and the victim was not
present within the |
26 | | motor vehicle; or
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1 | | (12) (16) the murdered individual was 60 years of age |
2 | | or older and the death
resulted
from exceptionally brutal |
3 | | or heinous behavior indicative of wanton cruelty; or
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4 | | (13) (17) the murdered individual was a disabled person |
5 | | and the defendant knew
or
should have known that the |
6 | | murdered individual was disabled. For purposes of
this |
7 | | paragraph (17), "disabled person" means a person who |
8 | | suffers from a
permanent physical or mental impairment |
9 | | resulting from disease, an injury,
a functional disorder, |
10 | | or a congenital condition that renders the person
incapable |
11 | | of
adequately providing for his or her own health or |
12 | | personal care; or
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13 | | (14) (18) the murder was committed by reason of any |
14 | | person's activity as a
community policing volunteer or to |
15 | | prevent any person from engaging in activity
as a community |
16 | | policing volunteer; or
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17 | | (15) (19) the murdered individual was subject to an |
18 | | order of protection and the
murder was committed by a |
19 | | person against whom the same order of protection was
issued |
20 | | under the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986; or
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21 | | (16) (20) the murdered individual was known by the |
22 | | defendant to be a teacher or
other person employed in any |
23 | | school and the teacher or other employee is upon
the |
24 | | grounds of a school or grounds adjacent to a school, or is |
25 | | in any part of a
building used for school purposes; or
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26 | | (17) (21) the murder was committed by the defendant in |
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1 | | connection with or as
a
result of the offense of terrorism |
2 | | as defined in Section 29D-14.9 of this
Code ; or .
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3 | | (18) (b-5) Aggravating Factor; Natural Life |
4 | | Imprisonment. A defendant who has been found guilty of |
5 | | first degree murder and who at the time of the commission |
6 | | of the offense had attained the age of 18 years or more may |
7 | | be sentenced to natural life imprisonment if
(i) the |
8 | | murdered individual was : (i) a physician, physician |
9 | | assistant, psychologist, nurse, or advanced practice |
10 | | nurse, (ii) a person whom the defendant knew or should have
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11 | | known that the murdered individual was a physician, |
12 | | physician assistant, psychologist, nurse, or advanced |
13 | | practice nurse, and (iii) the murdered individual was |
14 | | killed in the course of acting in his or her capacity as a |
15 | | physician, physician assistant, psychologist, nurse, or |
16 | | advanced practice nurse, or to prevent him or her from |
17 | | acting in that capacity, or in retaliation
for his or her |
18 | | acting in that capacity ; or . |
19 | | (19) the murdered individual was a public official and |
20 | | was killed because of his or her status as a public |
21 | | official. For purposes of this paragraph (19), "public |
22 | | official"
means a person who is elected to office in |
23 | | accordance with a statute or
who is appointed to an office |
24 | | which is established, and the qualifications
and duties of |
25 | | which are prescribed, by statute, to discharge a public |
26 | | duty
for the State or any of its political subdivisions or |
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1 | | in the case of
an elective office any person who has filed |
2 | | the required documents for
nomination or election to such |
3 | | office. |
4 | | (d) (c) Consideration of factors in Aggravation and |
5 | | Mitigation.
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6 | | The court shall consider, or shall instruct the jury to |
7 | | consider any
aggravating and any mitigating factors which are |
8 | | relevant to the
imposition of the death penalty. Aggravating |
9 | | factors may include but
need not be limited to those factors |
10 | | set forth in subsection (b).
Mitigating factors may include but |
11 | | need not be limited to the following:
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12 | | (1) the defendant has no significant history of prior |
13 | | criminal
activity;
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14 | | (2) the murder was committed while the defendant was |
15 | | under
the influence of extreme mental or emotional |
16 | | disturbance, although not such
as to constitute a defense |
17 | | to prosecution;
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18 | | (3) the murdered individual was a participant in the
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19 | | defendant's homicidal conduct or consented to the |
20 | | homicidal act;
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21 | | (4) the defendant acted under the compulsion of threat |
22 | | or
menace of the imminent infliction of death or great |
23 | | bodily harm;
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24 | | (5) the defendant was not personally present during
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25 | | commission of the act or acts causing death;
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26 | | (6) the defendant's background includes a history of |
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1 | | extreme emotional
or physical abuse;
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2 | | (7) the defendant suffers from a reduced mental |
3 | | capacity.
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4 | | (e) (d) Separate sentencing hearing.
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5 | | Where requested by the State, the court shall conduct a |
6 | | separate
sentencing proceeding to determine the existence of |
7 | | factors set forth in
subsection (b) and to consider any |
8 | | aggravating or mitigating factors as
indicated in subsection |
9 | | (c). The proceeding shall be conducted:
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10 | | (1) before the jury that determined the defendant's |
11 | | guilt; or
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12 | | (2) before a jury impanelled for the purpose of the |
13 | | proceeding if:
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14 | | A. the defendant was convicted upon a plea of |
15 | | guilty; or
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16 | | B. the defendant was convicted after a trial before |
17 | | the court
sitting without a jury; or
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18 | | C. the court for good cause shown discharges the |
19 | | jury that
determined the defendant's guilt; or
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20 | | (3) before the court alone if the defendant waives a |
21 | | jury
for the separate proceeding.
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22 | | (f) (e) Evidence and Argument.
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23 | | During the proceeding any information relevant to any of |
24 | | the factors
set forth in subsection (b) may be presented by |
25 | | either the State or the
defendant under the rules governing the |
26 | | admission of evidence at
criminal trials. Any information |
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1 | | relevant to any additional aggravating
factors or any |
2 | | mitigating factors indicated in subsection (c) may be
presented |
3 | | by the State or defendant regardless of its admissibility
under |
4 | | the rules governing the admission of evidence at criminal |
5 | | trials.
The State and the defendant shall be given fair |
6 | | opportunity to rebut any
information received at the hearing.
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7 | | (g) (f) Proof.
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8 | | The burden of proof of establishing the existence of any of |
9 | | the
factors set forth in subsection (b) is on the State and |
10 | | shall not be
satisfied unless established beyond a reasonable |
11 | | doubt.
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12 | | (h) (g) Procedure - Jury.
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13 | | If at the separate sentencing proceeding the jury finds |
14 | | that none of
the factors set forth in subsection (b) exists, |
15 | | the court shall sentence
the defendant to a term of |
16 | | imprisonment under Chapter V of the Unified
Code of |
17 | | Corrections. If there is a unanimous finding by the jury that
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18 | | one or more of the factors set forth in subsection (b) exist, |
19 | | the jury
shall consider aggravating and mitigating factors as |
20 | | instructed by the
court and shall determine whether the |
21 | | sentence of death shall be
imposed. If the jury determines |
22 | | unanimously, after weighing the factors in
aggravation and |
23 | | mitigation, that death is the appropriate sentence, the court |
24 | | shall sentence the defendant to death.
If the court does not |
25 | | concur with the jury determination that death is the
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26 | | appropriate sentence, the court shall set forth reasons in |
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1 | | writing
including what facts or circumstances the court relied |
2 | | upon,
along with any relevant
documents, that compelled the |
3 | | court to non-concur with the sentence. This
document and any |
4 | | attachments shall be part of the record for appellate
review. |
5 | | The court shall be bound by the jury's sentencing |
6 | | determination.
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7 | | If after weighing the factors in aggravation and |
8 | | mitigation, one or more
jurors determines that death is not the |
9 | | appropriate sentence,
the
court shall sentence the defendant to |
10 | | a term of imprisonment under
Chapter V of the Unified Code of |
11 | | Corrections.
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12 | | (i) (h) Procedure - No Jury.
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13 | | In a proceeding before the court alone, if the court finds |
14 | | that none
of the factors found in subsection (b) exists, the |
15 | | court shall sentence
the defendant to a term of imprisonment |
16 | | under Chapter V of the Unified
Code of Corrections.
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17 | | If the Court determines that one or more of the factors set |
18 | | forth in
subsection (b) exists, the Court shall consider any |
19 | | aggravating and
mitigating factors as indicated in subsection |
20 | | (c). If the Court
determines, after weighing the factors in |
21 | | aggravation and mitigation, that
death is the appropriate |
22 | | sentence, the Court shall sentence the
defendant to death.
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23 | | If
the court finds that death is not the
appropriate |
24 | | sentence, the
court shall sentence the defendant to a term of |
25 | | imprisonment under
Chapter V of the Unified Code of |
26 | | Corrections.
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1 | | (j) (h-5) Decertification as a capital case.
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2 | | In a case in which the defendant has been found guilty of |
3 | | first degree murder
by a judge or jury, or a case on remand for |
4 | | resentencing, and the State seeks
the death penalty as an |
5 | | appropriate
sentence,
on the court's own motion or the written |
6 | | motion of the defendant, the court
may decertify the case as a |
7 | | death penalty case if the court finds that the only
evidence |
8 | | supporting the defendant's conviction is the uncorroborated |
9 | | testimony
of an informant witness, as defined in Section 115-21 |
10 | | of the Code of Criminal
Procedure of 1963, concerning the |
11 | | confession or admission of the defendant or
that the sole |
12 | | evidence against the defendant is a single eyewitness or single
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13 | | accomplice without any other corroborating evidence.
If the |
14 | | court decertifies the case as a capital case
under either of |
15 | | the grounds set forth above, the court shall issue a
written |
16 | | finding. The State may pursue its right to appeal the |
17 | | decertification
pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 604(a)(1). If |
18 | | the court does not
decertify the case as a capital case, the |
19 | | matter shall proceed to the
eligibility phase of the sentencing |
20 | | hearing.
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21 | | (k) (i) Appellate Procedure.
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22 | | The conviction and sentence of death shall be subject to |
23 | | automatic
review by the Supreme Court. Such review shall be in |
24 | | accordance with
rules promulgated by the Supreme Court.
The |
25 | | Illinois Supreme Court may overturn the death sentence, and |
26 | | order the
imposition of imprisonment under Chapter V of the |
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1 | | Unified Code of
Corrections if the court finds that the death |
2 | | sentence is fundamentally
unjust as applied to the particular |
3 | | case.
If the Illinois Supreme Court finds that the
death |
4 | | sentence is fundamentally unjust as applied to the particular |
5 | | case,
independent of any procedural grounds for relief, the |
6 | | Illinois Supreme Court
shall issue a written opinion explaining |
7 | | this finding.
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8 | | (l) (j) Disposition of reversed death sentence.
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9 | | In the event that the death penalty in this Act is held to |
10 | | be
unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States |
11 | | or of the
State of Illinois, any person convicted of first |
12 | | degree murder shall be
sentenced by the court to a term of |
13 | | imprisonment under Chapter V of the
Unified Code of |
14 | | Corrections.
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15 | | In the event that any death sentence pursuant to the |
16 | | sentencing
provisions of this Section is declared |
17 | | unconstitutional by the Supreme
Court of the United States or |
18 | | of the State of Illinois, the court having
jurisdiction over a |
19 | | person previously sentenced to death shall cause the
defendant |
20 | | to be brought before the court, and the court shall sentence
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21 | | the defendant to a term of imprisonment under Chapter V of the
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22 | | Unified Code of Corrections.
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23 | | (m) (k) Guidelines for seeking the death penalty.
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24 | | The Attorney General and
State's Attorneys Association |
25 | | shall consult on voluntary guidelines for
procedures governing |
26 | | whether or not to seek the death penalty. The guidelines
do not
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1 | | have the force of law and are only advisory in nature.
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2 | | (Source: P.A. 96-710, eff. 1-1-10; 96-1475, eff. 1-1-11.) |
3 | | Section 10. The Unified Code of Corrections is amended by |
4 | | changing Section 5-8-1 as follows:
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5 | | (730 ILCS 5/5-8-1) (from Ch. 38, par. 1005-8-1)
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6 | | Sec. 5-8-1. Natural life imprisonment; enhancements for |
7 | | use of a firearm; mandatory supervised release terms.
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8 | | (a) Except as otherwise provided in the statute defining |
9 | | the offense or in Article 4.5 of Chapter V, a
sentence of |
10 | | imprisonment for a felony shall be a determinate sentence set |
11 | | by
the court under this Section, according to the following |
12 | | limitations:
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13 | | (1) for first degree murder,
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14 | | (a) (blank),
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15 | | (b) if a trier of fact finds beyond a reasonable
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16 | | doubt that the murder was accompanied by exceptionally
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17 | | brutal or heinous behavior indicative of wanton |
18 | | cruelty or, except as set forth
in subsection (a)(1)(c) |
19 | | of this Section, that any of the aggravating factors
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20 | | listed in subsection (b) or (c) (b-5) of Section 9-1 of |
21 | | the Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012 |
22 | | are
present, the court may sentence the defendant to a |
23 | | term of natural life
imprisonment, or
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24 | | (c) the court shall sentence the defendant to a |
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1 | | term of natural life
imprisonment when the death |
2 | | penalty is not imposed if the defendant,
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3 | | (i) has previously been convicted of first |
4 | | degree murder under
any state or federal law, or
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5 | | (ii) is a person who, at the time of the |
6 | | commission of the murder,
had attained the age of |
7 | | 17 or more and is found guilty of murdering an
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8 | | individual under 12 years of age; or, irrespective |
9 | | of the defendant's age at
the time of the |
10 | | commission of the offense, is found guilty of |
11 | | murdering more
than one victim, or
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12 | | (iii) is found guilty of murdering a peace |
13 | | officer, fireman, or emergency management worker |
14 | | when
the peace officer, fireman, or emergency |
15 | | management worker was killed in the course of |
16 | | performing his
official duties, or to prevent the |
17 | | peace officer or fireman from
performing his |
18 | | official duties, or in retaliation for the peace |
19 | | officer,
fireman, or emergency management worker |
20 | | from performing his official duties, and the |
21 | | defendant knew or should
have known that the |
22 | | murdered individual was a peace officer, fireman, |
23 | | or emergency management worker, or
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24 | | (iv) is found guilty of murdering an employee |
25 | | of an institution or
facility of the Department of |
26 | | Corrections, or any similar local
correctional |
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1 | | agency, when the employee was killed in the course |
2 | | of
performing his official duties, or to prevent |
3 | | the employee from performing
his official duties, |
4 | | or in retaliation for the employee performing his
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5 | | official duties, or
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6 | | (v) is found guilty of murdering an emergency |
7 | | medical
technician - ambulance, emergency medical |
8 | | technician - intermediate, emergency
medical |
9 | | technician - paramedic, ambulance driver or other |
10 | | medical assistance or
first aid person while |
11 | | employed by a municipality or other governmental |
12 | | unit
when the person was killed in the course of |
13 | | performing official duties or
to prevent the |
14 | | person from performing official duties or in |
15 | | retaliation
for performing official duties and the |
16 | | defendant knew or should have known
that the |
17 | | murdered individual was an emergency medical |
18 | | technician - ambulance,
emergency medical |
19 | | technician - intermediate, emergency medical
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20 | | technician - paramedic, ambulance driver, or other |
21 | | medical
assistant or first aid personnel, or
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22 | | (vi) is a person who, at the time of the |
23 | | commission of the murder,
had not attained the age |
24 | | of 17, and is found guilty of murdering a person |
25 | | under
12 years of age and the murder is committed |
26 | | during the course of aggravated
criminal sexual |
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1 | | assault, criminal sexual assault, or aggravated |
2 | | kidnaping,
or
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3 | | (vii) is found guilty of first degree murder |
4 | | and the murder was
committed by reason of any |
5 | | person's activity as a community policing |
6 | | volunteer
or to prevent any person from engaging in |
7 | | activity as a community policing
volunteer. For |
8 | | the purpose of this Section, "community policing |
9 | | volunteer"
has the meaning ascribed to it in |
10 | | Section 2-3.5 of the Criminal Code of 2012.
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11 | | For purposes of clause (v), "emergency medical |
12 | | technician - ambulance",
"emergency medical technician - |
13 | | intermediate", "emergency medical technician -
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14 | | paramedic", have the meanings ascribed to them in the |
15 | | Emergency Medical
Services (EMS) Systems Act.
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16 | | (d) (i) if the person committed the offense while |
17 | | armed with a
firearm, 15 years shall be added to |
18 | | the term of imprisonment imposed by the
court;
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19 | | (ii) if, during the commission of the offense, |
20 | | the person
personally discharged a firearm, 20 |
21 | | years shall be added to the term of
imprisonment |
22 | | imposed by the court;
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23 | | (iii) if, during the commission of the |
24 | | offense, the person
personally discharged a |
25 | | firearm that proximately caused great bodily harm,
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26 | | permanent disability, permanent disfigurement, or |
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1 | | death to another person, 25
years or up to a term |
2 | | of natural life shall be added to the term of
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3 | | imprisonment imposed by the court.
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4 | | (2) (blank);
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5 | | (2.5) for a person convicted under the circumstances |
6 | | described in subdivision (b)(1)(B) of Section 11-1.20 or
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7 | | paragraph (3) of subsection (b) of Section 12-13, |
8 | | subdivision (d)(2) of Section 11-1.30 or paragraph (2) of |
9 | | subsection
(d) of Section 12-14, subdivision (b)(1.2) of |
10 | | Section 11-1.40 or paragraph (1.2) of subsection (b) of
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11 | | Section 12-14.1, subdivision (b)(2) of Section 11-1.40 or |
12 | | paragraph (2) of subsection (b) of Section 12-14.1
of the |
13 | | Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012, the |
14 | | sentence shall be a term of natural life
imprisonment.
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15 | | (b) (Blank).
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16 | | (c) (Blank).
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17 | | (d) Subject to
earlier termination under Section 3-3-8, the |
18 | | parole or mandatory
supervised release term shall be written as |
19 | | part of the sentencing order and shall be as follows:
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20 | | (1) for first degree murder or a Class X felony except |
21 | | for the offenses of predatory criminal sexual assault of a |
22 | | child, aggravated criminal sexual assault, and criminal |
23 | | sexual assault if committed on or after the effective date |
24 | | of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly and |
25 | | except for the offense of aggravated child pornography |
26 | | under Section 11-20.1B, 11-20.3, or 11-20.1 with |
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1 | | sentencing under subsection (c-5) of Section 11-20.1 of the |
2 | | Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012, if |
3 | | committed on or after January 1, 2009, 3 years;
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4 | | (2) for a Class 1 felony or a Class 2 felony except for |
5 | | the offense of criminal sexual assault if committed on or |
6 | | after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th |
7 | | General Assembly and except for the offenses of manufacture |
8 | | and dissemination of child pornography under clauses |
9 | | (a)(1) and (a)(2) of Section 11-20.1 of the Criminal Code |
10 | | of 1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012, if committed on or |
11 | | after January 1, 2009, 2 years;
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12 | | (3) for a Class 3 felony or a Class 4 felony, 1 year;
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13 | | (4) for defendants who commit the offense of predatory |
14 | | criminal sexual assault of a child, aggravated criminal |
15 | | sexual assault, or criminal sexual assault, on or after the |
16 | | effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General |
17 | | Assembly, or who commit the offense of aggravated child |
18 | | pornography under Section 11-20.1B, 11-20.3, or 11-20.1 |
19 | | with sentencing under subsection (c-5) of Section 11-20.1 |
20 | | of the Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012, |
21 | | manufacture of child pornography, or dissemination of |
22 | | child pornography after January 1, 2009, the term of |
23 | | mandatory supervised release shall range from a minimum of |
24 | | 3 years to a maximum of the natural life of the defendant;
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25 | | (5) if the victim is under 18 years of age, for a |
26 | | second or subsequent
offense of aggravated criminal sexual |
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1 | | abuse or felony criminal sexual abuse,
4 years, at least |
2 | | the first 2 years of which the defendant shall serve in an
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3 | | electronic home detention program under Article 8A of |
4 | | Chapter V of this Code;
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5 | | (6) for a felony domestic battery, aggravated domestic |
6 | | battery, stalking, aggravated stalking, and a felony |
7 | | violation of an order of protection, 4 years. |
8 | | (e) (Blank).
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9 | | (f) (Blank).
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10 | | (Source: P.A. 96-282, eff. 1-1-10; 96-1000, eff. 7-2-10; |
11 | | 96-1200, eff. 7-22-10; 96-1475, eff. 1-1-11; 96-1551, eff. |
12 | | 7-1-11; 97-333, eff. 8-12-11; 97-531, eff. 1-1-12; 97-1109, |
13 | | eff. 1-1-13; 97-1150, eff. 1-25-13.)
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14 | | (725 ILCS 5/119-1 rep.) |
15 | | Section 15. The Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 is |
16 | | amended by repealing Section 119-1.
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