Full Text of SB0711 95th General Assembly
SB0711eng 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 is | 5 |
| amended by changing Section 111-4 as follows:
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| (725 ILCS 5/111-4) (from Ch. 38, par. 111-4)
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| Sec. 111-4. Joinder of offenses and defendants.
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| (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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| (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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| each count.
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| (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, Sections 16-1, 16-2, | 23 |
| 16-3, 16-5, 16-7, 16-8, 16-10, 16A-3,
16B-2, 16C-2, 17-1, 17-6, |
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| 17-7, 17-8, 17-9 or 17-10 of the Criminal Code of
1961 and | 2 |
| Section 118 of Division I of the Criminal Jurisprudence Act, | 3 |
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be charged as a single offense in a single count of the | 4 |
| same indictment,
information or complaint, if such acts or | 5 |
| transactions by one or more
defendants are in furtherance of a | 6 |
| single intention and design or
and if the
property, labor or | 7 |
| services obtained are of the same person or are of
several | 8 |
| persons having a common interest in such property, labor or
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| services. In such a charge, the period between the dates of the | 10 |
| first and
the final such acts or transactions may be alleged as | 11 |
| the date of the
offense and, if any such act or transaction by | 12 |
| any defendant was committed
in the county where the prosecution | 13 |
| was commenced, such county may be
alleged as the county of the | 14 |
| offense.
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| (Source: P.A. 87-805.)
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