PEOPLE v. AGUILAR

Docket No. 112116.

2 N.E.3d 321 (2013)

2013 IL 112116

377 Ill. Dec. 405

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Alberto AGUILAR, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Modified upon Denial of Rehearing December 19, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Pelletier , State Appellate Defender, Alan D. Goldberg , Deputy Defender, and David C. Holland , Assistant Appellate Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, of Chicago, for appellant.

Lisa Madigan , Attorney General, of Springfield, and Anita Alvarez , State's Attorney, of Chicago ( Alan J. Spellberg , Michelle Fowler , Annette Collins , Susan Schierl Sullivan , Veronica Calderon Malavia and Kathryn Schierl , Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Victor D. Quilici , of River Grove, and Stephen P. Halbrook , of Fairfax, Virginia, for amici curiae Illinois State Rifle Association et al.

William N. Howard and Garry L. Wills , of Freeborn & Peters, of Chicago, for amici curiae Certain Illinois Legislators.

Stephen A. Kolodziej , of Brenner, Ford, Monroe & Scott, Ltd., of Chicago, and Charles J. Cooper , David H. Thompson and Peter A. Patterson , of Cooper & Kirk, PLLC, of Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae National Rifle Association of America, Inc.

Michael P. O'Shea , of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for amici curiae Professor Nicholas J. Johnson et al.

Janet Garetto , of Chicago ( David H. Tennant , of Rochester, New York, Lynette Nogueras-Trummer , of Buffalo, New York, and Cameron R. Cloar , of San Francisco, California, of counsel), for amici curiae Legal Community Against Violence et al.

Alexander D. Marks , of Burke, Warren, MacKay & Serritella, P.C., of Chicago, and Jonathan L. Diesenhaus , S. Chartey Quarcoo and Matthew C. Sullivan , of Hogan Lovells US LLP, and Jonathan E. Lowy and Daniel R. Vice , all of Washington, D.C., for amici curiae Brady Center To Prevent Gun Violence et al.

Ranjit Hakim , of Mayer Brown LLP, of Chicago, for amici curiae Historians Patrick J. Charles, Peter Charles Hoffer, Stanley N. Katz, William Pencak and Robert J. Spitzer.


OPINION

Justice THOMAS delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Garman dissented upon denial of rehearing, with opinion. Justice Theis dissented upon denial of rehearing, with opinion.

¶ 1 The principal issue in this case is whether the Class 4 form of section 24-1.6(a)(1), (a)(3)(A), (d) of the Illinois aggravated unlawful use of weapons (AUUW) statute (720 ILCS 5/24-1.6(a)(1), (a)(3)(A), (d) (West 2008)) violates the right...

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