PEOPLE v. WATSON

No. 1-18-0034.

201 N.E.3d 63 (2021)

2021 IL App (1st) 180034

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Britany WATSON, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, THIRD DIVISION.

Filed September 29, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Chadd , Douglas R. Hoff , and Daniel H. Regenscheit , of State Appellate Defender's Office, of Chicago, for appellant.

Kimberly M. Foxx , State's Attorney, of Chicago ( Alan J. Spellberg , Janet C. Mahoney , and David H. Iskowich , Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.


OPINION

¶ 1 We must determine here whether due process bars the State from convicting a juvenile of first degree murder, based on either a felony-murder or common-design accountability theory, when the juvenile did not kill or intend for a killing to occur. We hold that...

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