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People v. Johns

Citations

  • 802 N.E.2d 305
  • 345 Ill. App. 3d 237
  • 280 Ill. Dec. 380
  • 2003 Ill. App. LEXIS 1548

How courts have described this case

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

  • “Felony murder seeks to deter persons from committing forceable felonies by holding them responsible for murder if a death results.”
  • “[f]or the felony-murder rule to attach, the act causing the death must *** occur during the underlying felony”
  • Illinois adheres to a proximate cause approach to felony murder liability
  • Illinois adheres to a proximate cause approach to felony-murder liability

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Judges: Schmidt, McDade, Lytton

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