People v. Bailey

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• affirming financial exploitation conviction where the defendant used her POA to deplete an elderly and disabled person’s life savings
• affirming a conviction for financial exploitation where defendant transacted purportedly on behalf of an elderly woman suffering from dementia
• affirming conviction where “[the victim’s] dementia precluded her from authorizing defendant’s use of [the victim’s] funds”
• affirming conviction for financial exploitation of the elderly charged alongside theft, noting that authorization was an element of both and that the victim “did not authorize [the defendant] to deplete her life savings”
• “the trier of fact is the sole arbiter of the credibility of witnesses and it is not the function of the appellate court to substitute its judgment for that of the trier of fact”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Burney
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2011-12-27· cited 45×
• People v. Lopez-Bonilla
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2011-12-14· cited 18×
• People v. Burney
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2012-01-26· cited 9×
• People v. Somers
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2012-06-13· cited 9×
• People v. Sweeney
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2012-03-22· cited 8×
• People v. Walton
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2013-05-29· cited 6×
• People v. McCauley
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2013-02-19· cited 3×
• Padma Rao v. J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, N.A.
  Seventh Circuit· 2025-08-27
• People v. Wright
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2026-06-05