People v. Scott

Illinois Appellate Court
Criminal Court
Juvenile Court Act
Citation
Case Number: 
2016 IL App (1st) 141456
Decision Date: 
Thursday, December 15, 2016
District: 
1st Dist.
Division/County: 
Cook Co., 4th Div.
Holding: 
Affirmed in part and vacated in part; remanded with directions.
Justice: 
ELLIS

Defendant, age 16 at time of offense, and his codefendant, who was age 15 at time of offense, were tried at joint bench trial and convicted of aggravated robbery and unlawful restraint, after robbing woman walking down a street of 2 backpacks. The unlawful-restraint conviction must be vacated under the one-act, one-crime doctrine. Amendment ot automatic transfer provision of Juvenile Court Act, which excluded offense of armed robbery from list of offenses requiring automatic transfer of a juvenile to adult court, applied retroactively to Defendant's case.(HOWSE and BURKE, concurring.)