Supreme Court of Illinois

A juvenile's convictions for attempted escape, aggravated battery, and aggravated unlawful restraint based on an incident that occurred while the juvenile was incarcerated at a juvenile temporary detention center, are reversed where: 1) under the plain meaning of the escape statute, a juvenile who is adjudicated delinquent is not "a person convicted of a felony"; and 2) defendant, therefore, cannot be found guilty of attempted escape or of the charges of aggravated battery or aggravated unlawful restraint which depended on it.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/18/2006
• Published 05/18/2006

Judges

• Chief Justice THOMAS delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (Linda D. Woloshin, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, and James E. Fitzgerald, Michelle Katz, Sang Won Shim, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael J. Pelletier, Deputy Defender, Vicki P. Kouros, Assistant Appellate Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Elgin, for appellee.