Supreme Court of Illinois

The multiple-murder sentencing statute, as applied to a juvenile offender convicted under a theory of accountability, violates the proportionate penalties clause of the Illinois Constitution.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/21/2002
• Published 01/06/2003

Judges

• Justice FITZGERALD delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (William Browers, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, and Renee Goldfarb, Kenneth T. McCurry and LaTisha R. Foster, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People., Randolph N. Stone and Herschella G. Conyers, Chicago, and Daniel Spector, John Durrant, Mala Adiga and Megan Deluhery, law students, for amici curiae Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic et al.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael J. Pelletier, Deputy Defender, and Deborah Israel, Assistant Appellate Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago, for appellee.