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State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
SB2876 Introduced 2/17/2016, by Sen. Chris Nybo SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Adds the criminal offense of money laundering to the list of offenses that can be joined into one count of an indictment, rather than requiring each transaction to be prosecuted separately.
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| | SB2876 | | LRB099 18984 SLF 43373 b |
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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 Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 is |
| 5 | | amended by changing Section 111-4 as follows:
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| 6 | | (725 ILCS 5/111-4)
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| 7 | | Sec. 111-4. Joinder of offenses and defendants.
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| 8 | | (a) Two or more offenses may be charged in the same |
| 9 | | indictment,
information or complaint in a separate count for |
| 10 | | each offense if the
offenses charged, whether felonies or |
| 11 | | misdemeanors or both, are based on
the same act or on 2 or more |
| 12 | | acts which are part of the same comprehensive
transaction.
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| 13 | | (b) Two or more defendants may be charged in the same |
| 14 | | indictment,
information or complaint if they are alleged to |
| 15 | | have participated in the
same act or in the same comprehensive |
| 16 | | transaction out of which the offense
or offenses arose. Such |
| 17 | | defendants may be charged in one or more counts
together or |
| 18 | | separately and all of the defendants need not be charged in
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| 19 | | each count.
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| 20 | | (c) Two or more acts or transactions in violation of any |
| 21 | | provision or
provisions of Sections 8A-2, 8A-3, 8A-4, 8A-4A and |
| 22 | | 8A-5 of the Illinois
Public Aid Code, Section 14 of the |
| 23 | | Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act, Sections 16-1, |
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| 1 | | 16-1.3, 16-2, 16-3, 16-5, 16-7, 16-8, 16-10, 16-25, 16-30, |
| 2 | | 16A-3,
16B-2, 16G-15, 16G-20, 16H-15, 16H-20, 16H-25, 16H-30, |
| 3 | | 16H-45, 16H-50, 16H-55, 17-1, 17-3, 17-6, 17-30, 17-56, or |
| 4 | | 17-60, or 29B-1, or item (ii) of subsection (a) or (b) of |
| 5 | | Section 17-9, or subdivision (a)(2) of Section 17-10.5, or |
| 6 | | subsection (a), (b), (c), (d), (g), (h), or (i) of Section |
| 7 | | 17-10.6, or subsection (a) of Section 17-32 of the Criminal |
| 8 | | Code of
1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012 and Section 118 of |
| 9 | | Division I of the Criminal Jurisprudence Act, may
be charged as |
| 10 | | a single offense in a single count of the same indictment,
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| 11 | | information or complaint, if such acts or transactions by one |
| 12 | | or more
defendants are in furtherance of a single intention and |
| 13 | | design or if the
property, labor or services obtained are of |
| 14 | | the same person or are of
several persons having a common |
| 15 | | interest in such property, labor or
services. In such a charge, |
| 16 | | the period between the dates of the first and
the final such |
| 17 | | acts or transactions may be alleged as the date of the
offense |
| 18 | | and, if any such act or transaction by any defendant was |
| 19 | | committed
in the county where the prosecution was commenced, |
| 20 | | such county may be
alleged as the county of the offense.
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| 21 | | (Source: P.A. 96-354, eff. 8-13-09; 96-1207, eff. 7-22-10; |
| 22 | | 96-1407, eff. 1-1-11; 96-1551, eff. 7-1-11; 97-333, eff. |
| 23 | | 8-12-11; 97-597, eff. 1-1-12; 97-1150, eff. 1-25-13.)
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