PEOPLE v. BROWN

(Docket No. 127201).

211 N.E.3d 339 (2022)

2022 IL 127201

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellant, v. Vivian Claudine BROWN, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Filed June 16, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kwame Raoul , Attorney General, of Springfield ( Jane Elinor Notz , Solicitor General, and Michael M. Glick , Katherine M. Doersch , and Garson S. Fischer , Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, of counsel), for the People.

David G. Sigale , of Law Firm of David G. Sigale, P.C., of Wheaton, for appellee.

Celia Meza , Corporation Counsel, and Kimberly M. Foxx , State's Attorney, both of Chicago ( Myriam Zreczny Kasper and Suzanne M. Loose , Assistant Corporation Counsel, and Cathy McNeil Stein , Jessica Scheller , and Megan Honingford , Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for amici curiae City of Chicago et al.

Jonathan K. Baum and Hannah O. Koesterer , of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, of Chicago, for amicus curiae Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

Brett E. Legner , of Mayer Brown LLP, of Chicago, for amicus curiae Everytown for Gun Safety.

Thomas A. Haine , State's Attorney, of Edwardsville ( Andrew K. Carruthers and John C. Hanson , Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for amicus curiae Madison County.

Christian D. Ambler , of Stone & Johnson, Chtrd., of Chicago, and David H. Thompson (pro hac vice), of Cooper & Kirk, PLLC, of Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae Guns Save Life, Inc.

Gregory A. Bedell , of Knabe & Bedell, of Chicago, George A. Mocsary , of Laramie, Wyoming, David B. Kopel , of Denver, Colorado, and Joseph G.S. Greenlee , of Sacramento, California, for amici curiae, Tazewell County State's Attorney Stewart J. Umholtz et al.


OPINION

¶ 1 This is the second time this case has come before us on direct appeal. In People v. Brown, 2020 IL 124100, 444 Ill.Dec. 612, 164 N.E.3d 1187, this court vacated the judgment of the circuit court of White County and remanded the cause...

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