103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB4053

 

Introduced 4/27/2023, by Rep. Patrick Windhorst - Dennis Tipsword, Jr., Tony M. McCombie and Kevin Schmidt

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
725 ILCS 5/103-3.5
725 ILCS 5/109-1  from Ch. 38, par. 109-1

    Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. In a provision which specifies that a person who is in police custody shall have the right, upon being taken into police custody, to communicate free of charge with an attorney of his or her choice and members of his or her family, deletes a provision that required that right to be provided as soon as possible upon being taken into custody. Provides that, if a person who is in police custody is transferred to a new place of detention, that person has a right to make one telephone call (rather than 3 telephone calls) within 3 hours of arrival. Specifies that this right is not renewable. Provides that the person in police custody is prohibited from contacting the alleged victim or victims of the offense for which the person is charged. Provides that statements that are made by a person who is detained in police custody in violation of the right to communicate provisions of the Code may be used to evaluate whether those statements were voluntarily given and are reliable, based on the totality of the circumstances. Authorizes a custodial arrest of a person accused of an offense that is not a felony or Class A misdemeanor if necessary to verify the accused's identity.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning criminal law.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 is
5amended by changing Sections 103-3.5 and 109-1 as follows:
 
6    (725 ILCS 5/103-3.5)
7    Sec. 103-3.5. Right to communicate with attorney and
8family; transfers; presumption of inadmissibility.
9    (a) Persons who are in police custody shall have the right
10to communicate free of charge with an attorney of his or her
11choice and members of his or her family as soon as possible
12upon being taken into police custody, but no later than 3 hours
13of arrival at the first place of detention. Persons in police
14custody must be given access to use a telephone via a landline
15or cellular phone to make 3 telephone calls.
16    (b) In accordance with Section 103-7, at every police
17facility where a person is in police custody, a sign
18containing at minimum, the following information in bold block
19type must be posted in a conspicuous place:
20        (1) a short statement notifying persons who are in
21    police custody of their right to have access to a phone
22    within 3 hours of being taken into police custody; and
23        (2) that persons who are in police custody have the

 

 

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1    right to make 3 phone calls within 3 hours of being taken
2    into custody, at no charge.
3    (c) In addition to the information listed in subsection
4(b), if the place of detention is located in a jurisdiction
5where the court has appointed the public defender or other
6attorney to represent persons who are in police custody, the
7telephone number to the public defender or other attorney's
8office must also be displayed. The telephone call to the
9public defender or other attorney must not be monitored,
10eavesdropped upon, or recorded.
11    (d) If a person who is in police custody is transferred to
12a new place of detention, that person person's has a right to
13make one 3 telephone call calls under this Section within 3
14hours of arrival, and that right is not renewable is renewed.
15    (d-5) The person in police custody is prohibited from
16contacting the alleged victim or victims of the offense for
17which the person is charged.
18    (e) Statements made by a person who is detained in police
19custody in violation of this Section may be used to evaluate
20whether section are presumed inadmissible in court as
21evidence. The presumption of inadmissibility may be overcome
22by a preponderance of the evidence that the statements were
23statement was voluntarily given and are is reliable, based on
24the totality of the circumstances. As used in this subsection,
25"totality of the circumstances" includes, but is not limited
26to, evidence that law enforcement knowingly prevented or

 

 

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1delayed a person's right to communicate or failed to comply
2with the requirements of this Section.
3    (f) The 3-hour requirement under this Section shall not
4apply while the person in police custody is asleep,
5unconscious, or otherwise incapacitated or an exigent
6circumstance prevents the officers from timely complying with
7this Section. If this occurs, it must be documented within the
8police report detailing the exigent circumstance. Once the
9exigent circumstance ends, the right to make 3 phone calls
10within 3 hours resumes.
11    (g) In accordance with this Section, the following records
12shall be maintained: (i) the number of phone calls the person
13made while in custody; (ii) the time or times the person made
14phone calls; and (iii) if the person did not make any phone
15calls, a statement of the reason or reasons why no calls were
16made.
17    (h) For purposes of this Section, "place of detention"
18means a building or a police station that is a place of
19operation for a municipal police department or county sheriff
20department or other law enforcement agency, other than a
21courthouse, that is owned or operated by a law enforcement
22agency, or other building, such as a school or hospital, where
23persons are held in detention in connection with criminal
24charges against those persons.
25(Source: P.A. 102-694, eff. 1-7-22.)
 

 

 

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1    (725 ILCS 5/109-1)  (from Ch. 38, par. 109-1)
2    Sec. 109-1. Person arrested; release from law enforcement
3custody and court appearance; geographic constraints prevent
4in-person appearances.
5    (a) A person arrested with or without a warrant for an
6offense for which pretrial release may be denied under
7paragraphs (1) through (6) of Section 110-6.1 shall be taken
8without unnecessary delay before the nearest and most
9accessible judge in that county, except when such county is a
10participant in a regional jail authority, in which event such
11person may be taken to the nearest and most accessible judge,
12irrespective of the county where such judge presides, within
1348 hours, and a charge shall be filed. Whenever a person
14arrested either with or without a warrant is required to be
15taken before a judge, a charge may be filed against such person
16by way of a two-way audio-visual communication system, except
17that a hearing to deny pretrial release to the defendant may
18not be conducted by two-way audio-visual communication system
19unless the accused waives the right to be present physically
20in court, the court determines that the physical health and
21safety of any person necessary to the proceedings would be
22endangered by appearing in court, or the chief judge of the
23circuit orders use of that system due to operational
24challenges in conducting the hearing in person. Such
25operational challenges must be documented and approved by the
26chief judge of the circuit, and a plan to address the

 

 

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1challenges through reasonable efforts must be presented and
2approved by the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts
3every 6 months.
4    (a-1) Law enforcement shall issue a citation in lieu of
5custodial arrest, upon proper identification, for those
6accused of any offense that is not a felony or Class A
7misdemeanor unless (i) a law enforcement officer reasonably
8believes the accused poses a threat to the community or any
9person, (ii) a custodial arrest is necessary because the
10criminal activity persists after the issuance of a citation,
11or (iii) the accused has an obvious medical or mental health
12issue that poses a risk to the accused's own safety, or (iv) a
13custodial arrest is necessary to verify the accused's
14identity. Nothing in this Section requires arrest in the case
15of Class A misdemeanor and felony offenses, or otherwise
16limits existing law enforcement discretion to decline to
17effect a custodial arrest.
18    (a-3) A person arrested with or without a warrant for an
19offense for which pretrial release may not be denied may,
20except as otherwise provided in this Code, be released by a law
21enforcement officer without appearing before a judge. A
22presumption in favor of pretrial release shall be applied by
23an arresting officer in the exercise of his or her discretion
24under this Section.
25    (a-5) A person charged with an offense shall be allowed
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1under Article 110 of this Code. If the defendant desires
2counsel for his or her initial appearance but is unable to
3obtain counsel, the court shall appoint a public defender or
4licensed attorney at law of this State to represent him or her.
5    (b) Upon initial appearance of a person before the court,
6the judge shall:
7        (1) inform the defendant of the charge against him and
8    shall provide him with a copy of the charge;
9        (2) advise the defendant of his right to counsel and
10    if indigent shall appoint a public defender or licensed
11    attorney at law of this State to represent him in
12    accordance with the provisions of Section 113-3 of this
13    Code;
14        (3) schedule a preliminary hearing in appropriate
15    cases;
16        (4) admit the defendant to pretrial release in
17    accordance with the provisions of Article 110 of this
18    Code, or upon verified petition of the State, proceed with
19    the setting of a detention hearing as provided in Section
20    110-6.1; and
21        (5) order the confiscation of the person's passport or
22    impose travel restrictions on a defendant arrested for
23    first degree murder or other violent crime as defined in
24    Section 3 of the Rights of Crime Victims and Witnesses
25    Act, if the judge determines, based on the factors in
26    Section 110-5 of this Code, that this will reasonably

 

 

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1    ensure the appearance of the defendant and compliance by
2    the defendant with all conditions of release.
3    (c) The court may issue an order of protection in
4accordance with the provisions of Article 112A of this Code.
5Crime victims shall be given notice by the State's Attorney's
6office of this hearing as required in paragraph (2) of
7subsection (b) of Section 4.5 of the Rights of Crime Victims
8and Witnesses Act and shall be informed of their opportunity
9at this hearing to obtain an order of protection under Article
10112A of this Code.
11    (d) At the initial appearance of a defendant in any
12criminal proceeding, the court must advise the defendant in
13open court that any foreign national who is arrested or
14detained has the right to have notice of the arrest or
15detention given to his or her country's consular
16representatives and the right to communicate with those
17consular representatives if the notice has not already been
18provided. The court must make a written record of so advising
19the defendant.
20    (e) If consular notification is not provided to a
21defendant before his or her first appearance in court, the
22court shall grant any reasonable request for a continuance of
23the proceedings to allow contact with the defendant's
24consulate. Any delay caused by the granting of the request by a
25defendant shall temporarily suspend for the time of the delay
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1by subsection (a), (b), or (e) of Section 103-5 of this Code
2and on the day of the expiration of delay the period shall
3continue at the point at which it was suspended.
4    (f) At the hearing at which conditions of pretrial release
5are determined, the person charged shall be present in person
6rather than by two-way audio-video communication system unless
7the accused waives the right to be present physically in
8court, the court determines that the physical health and
9safety of any person necessary to the proceedings would be
10endangered by appearing in court, or the chief judge of the
11circuit orders use of that system due to operational
12challenges in conducting the hearing in person. Such
13operational challenges must be documented and approved by the
14chief judge of the circuit, and a plan to address the
15challenges through reasonable efforts must be presented and
16approved by the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts
17every 6 months.
18    (g) Defense counsel shall be given adequate opportunity to
19confer with the defendant prior to any hearing in which
20conditions of release or the detention of the defendant is to
21be considered, with a physical accommodation made to
22facilitate attorney/client consultation. If defense counsel
23needs to confer or consult with the defendant during any
24hearing conducted via a two-way audio-visual communication
25system, such consultation shall not be recorded and shall be
26undertaken consistent with constitutional protections.

 

 

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1(Source: P.A. 101-652, eff. 1-1-23; 102-813, eff. 5-13-22;
2102-1104, eff. 1-1-23.)