People v. Milan

Illinois Appellate Court
Criminal Court
Weapons
Citation
Case Number: 
2020 IL App (1st) 172181
Decision Date: 
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
District: 
1st Dist.
Division/County: 
Cook Co., 5th Div.
Holding: 
Reversed.
Justice: 
CUNNINGHAM

Defendant was convicted in 2017 of unlawful use of a weapon by a felon. There was no evidence Defendant lived in the house where the gun and holster were recovered, and there was uncontradicted evidence that they belonged to Defendant's mother's late husband. Gun was not in plain view but inside a basement crawlspace. In the absence of independent evidence to corroborate Defendant's confession, evidence was insufficient to sustain the conviction. (DELORT and HOFFMAN, concurring.)