People v. Benzor

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• holding that, because “knowingly” appeared only in the conduct clause of the statute but not in the circumstance clause, the legislature intended that the “mental state ‘knowingly’ apply only to the conduct element of the crime of escape following conviction”
• mens rea of “knowingly” applies only to conduct of offense of escape, not to phrase, “following conviction of a felony”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).