People v. Bell

(Court opinion corrected 7/11/18.) Defendant was convicted, after bench trial, of unlawful use of a weapon (UUW) in a public park. The firearm restrictions within a public park provision continues to accomplish the aim of protecting the police and public from dangerous weapons, without effectively prohibiting possession of a firearm for self-defense within a vast majority of acreage in Chicago. That section of UUW statute is not facially unconstitutional. (CUNNINGHAM, concurring; HOFFMAN, specially concurring).