Supreme Court of Illinois

In a conviction for armed robbery and aggravated kidnapping where defendant was required to register as a sex offender pursuant to the 1996 statute which had expanded the sex offender registry to include nonparents who commit enumerated nonsexual offenses against children, sentence is affirmed where the commission of certain crimes against children often leads to sexual exploitation and, therefore, the legislature could reasonably require such offenders to register.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/24/2007
• Published 05/24/2007

Judges

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (Linda D. Woloshin and Michael Glick, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, James Fitzgerald, Mary L. Boland and Laura M. Boedeker, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael J. Pelletier, Deputy Defender, and Kari K. Firebaugh, Assistant Appellate Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago, for appellee.