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189 Ill. 2d 635

727 N.E.2d 200

People v. Falbe

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided January 21, 2000

Illinois Supreme Court · decided 2000-01-21

Relies on 152 Ill. 2d 504 - Rehg v. Illinois Department of Revenue · 187 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Fuller

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Decided 2000-01-21

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Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably 215 Ill. 2d 427 - People v. Blair (2005), 216 Ill. 2d 481 - People v. Sharpe (2005)

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JUSTICE BILANDIC,

¶1dissenting:

¶2This court has no jurisdiction to hear the State’s appeal. This appeal should therefore be dismissed, and the cause should be transferred to the appellate court.

¶3In Rehg v. Illinois Department of Revenue, 152 Ill. 2d 504, 508-09 (1992), this court noted that a circuit court order holding only that a statute is unconstitutional “as applied” in a particular case is not directly appealable to this court under Supreme Court Rule 302(a)(1). In People v. Fuller, 187 Ill. 2d 1, 8-10 (1999), a majority of this court overruled Rehg and determined that this court has jurisdiction over all appeals from circuit court orders holding statutes unconstitutional, even if the circuit court declares the statute unconstitutional only as applied to that case. I dissented in Fuller, and I continue to adhere to the rationale set forth in that dissent. See Fuller, 187 Ill. 2d at 21-24 (Bilandic, J., dissenting). Here, the circuit court declared section 407(b)(1) to be “unconstitutionally vague with regard to the given facts, to wit: the triggering of the enhanced penalty do [sic] solely to police action in selecting the locus of the offense by a traffic stop.” Because the circuit court held only that the statute is unconstitutional as applied to defendants in this case, the circuit court’s order is not directly appeal-able to this court, and we therefore do not have jurisdiction over the State’s appeal. For this reason, I respectfully dissent.

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