Supreme Court of Illinois

Conviction for armed robbery and first degree murder based on the commission of a felony is affirmed where guilt for felony murder is different from guilt by accountability and may be imposed even when the decedent is a co-felon who is shot by the intended victim of the crime.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/22/2006
• Published 06/22/2006

Judges

• Justice FREEMAN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas C. Brandstrader, Chicago, for appellant., Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (Linda D. Woloshin, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, James E. Fitzgerald, Alan J. Spellberg, Annette Collins and Matthew Connors, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.