Supreme Court of Illinois

Conviction for reckless discharge of a firearm is affirmed where: 1) the evidence was sufficient to show that the area was a residential one in which other individuals were present who could have been endangered by the shooting; and 2) the court held that the applicable statute does not require proof that a specific person was actually endangered, but merely that someone could have been endangered.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/03/2005
• Published 02/03/2005

Judges

• Justice FITZGERALD delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney General, Chicago (Linda D. Woloshin, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, and Renee G. Goldfarb, Alan J. Spellberg, Sheri Dietz and Annette Collins, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the people.


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