Supreme Court of Illinois

Section 4-103.2(b) of the Illinois Vehicle Code is constitutionally infirm as it applies to special mobile equipment, because it violates due process by removing the requirement that a piece of equipment be recently stolen in order for possession of the equipment to give rise to an inference that the possessor knows that the equipment was stolen.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/08/2003
• Published 07/01/2003

Judges

• Justice KILBRIDE delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Joseph E. Birkett, State's Attorney, Wheaton (Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General, and William L. Browers and David H. Iskowich, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for the People.


• For Appellees:
  
• George P. Lynch, Lisle, for appellee.