PEOPLE v. SOTO

No. 1-12-1937.

7 N.E.3d 823 (2014)

2014 IL App (1st) 121937

379 Ill. Dec. 985

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Carlos SOTO, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fifth Division.

March 14, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Pelletier , Alan D. Goldberg , Arianne Stein , State Appellate Defender's Office, Chicago, for appellant.

Anita M. Alvarez , State's Attorney, Chicago ( Alan J. Spellberg , Assistant State's Attorney, of counsel), for the People.


OPINION

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

¶ 1 Following a jury trial, defendant Carlos Soto was convicted of unlawful use of a weapon by a felon. On appeal, defendant contends that: (1) his conviction must be reversed because the State failed to prove an element of the offense, that he was convicted of a prior felony, where the prior conviction on which the State relied, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, was based...

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