PEOPLE v. CLEMONS

No. 107821.

968 N.E.2d 1046 (2012)

360 Ill. Dec. 293

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellant, v. Corey D. CLEMONS, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

April 19, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lisa Madigan , Attorney General, of Springfield, and Julia Rietz , State's Attorney, of Urbana ( Michael A. Scodro , Solicitor General, and Michael M. Glick and Garson S. Fischer , Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, and Patrick Delfino , Robert J. Biderman and Anastacia R. Brooks , of the Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, of Springfield, of counsel), for the People.

Michael J. Pelletier , State Appellate Defender, Karen Munoz , Deputy Defender, and Susan M. Wilham , Assistant Appellate Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, of Springfield, for appellee.


OPINION

Justice THEIS delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion.

¶ 1 At issue in this appeal is whether this court should overrule People v. Hauschild, 226 Ill.2d 63, 312 Ill.Dec. 601, 871 N.E.2d 1 (2007), or, alternatively, abandon the "identical elements test" as a part of our proportionate penalties clause jurisprudence...

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