Supreme Court of Illinois

Certain statements made by the circuit court amounted to a unequivocal acquittal, under the reasoning set forth in People v. Williams, 188 Ill. 2d 293 (1999), thus a subsequent conviction for armed robbery violated double jeopardy.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/17/2003
• Published 06/02/2003

Judges

• Chief Justice McMORROW delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James E. Ryan and Lisa Madigan, Attorneys General, Springfield, and William Haine, State's Attorney, Edwardsville (Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General, William L. Browers, Jay Paul Hoffmann and Lisa Anne Hoffman, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, and Norbert J. Goetten, Stephen E. Norris and Gerry R. Arnold, of the Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, Mt. Vernon, of counsel), for the People.


• For Appellees:
  
• Daniel M. Kirwan, Deputy Defender, and Robert S. Burke, Assistant Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, Mt. Vernon, for appellee.