People v. Moore

Illinois Appellate Court
Criminal Court
Guilty Pleas
Citation
Case Number: 
2021 IL App (2d) 200407
Decision Date: 
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
District: 
2d Dist.
Division/County: 
Lake Co.
Holding: 
Affirmed.
Justice: 
McLAREN

Court denied motion of Defendant, age 19 at time of offenses, to withdraw his guilty plea to armed robbery while armed with a dangerous weapon other than a firearm. Defendant argued that court accepted guilty plea without adequate factual basis for the dangerous-weapon element. Defendant is precluded from challenging his guilty plea because he expressly invited and acquiesced in the claimed error. Defendant stopped jury trial after several witnesses, including the victim, had testified, and he asked to reopen plea negotiations, when the evidence amply supported charge of armed robbery with a firearm. (ZENOFF and HUDSON, concurring.)