Illinois Appellate Court
Criminal Court
Juvenile Sentencing
(Modified upon denial of rehearing.) Defendant, age 13, was convicted of armed robbery under Criminal Code and sentenced to 21 years in prison. Defendant had been charged by juvenile petition with armed robbery of a bank. Court did not adequately address two statutory transfer factors, and critical nonstatutory factor of potential term of sentence, in deciding to permit prosecution of juvenile under criminal law. State failed to present any evidence that gun was loaded; when officers recovered handgun, it was empty and inoperable. (CARTER, concurring; WRIGHT, specially concurring.)