People of Illinois v. Myers

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• holding the defendant’s acts were not one physical act despite occurring close in time
• concurrent sentences where defendant twice moved knife from first victim’s neck to threaten a second victim; although invasions were closely related in time and in the same area of the neck, the acts were not one physical act
• “Two separate invasions of [the victim’s] body, even though closely related by reason of the fact that they attacked the same area of his body and were close in time, were not one physical act.”
• concurrent sentences where defendant twice moved knife from first victim's neck to threaten a second victim; although invasions were closely related in time and in the same area of the neck, the acts were not one physical act

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