People v. Clark

Illinois Appellate Court
Civil Court
Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Citation
Case Number: 
2017 IL App (3d) 140987
Decision Date: 
Thursday, October 5, 2017
District: 
3d Dist.
Division/County: 
Whiteside Co.
Holding: 
Reversed and remanded.
Justice: 
O'BRIEN

(Modified upon denial of rehearing 11/1/17.) Defendant was convicted, after stipulated bench trial, of escape for her failure to report to county jail immediately after her discharge from a halfway house as ordered as a bond condition. As State could not establish that Defendant was in custody, a requirement inherent in the offense of escape, it could not prove she was guilty of escape beyond a reasonable doubt. (HOLDRIDGE and McDADE, concurring.)