¶1specially concurring:
¶2In People v. Jones, 207 Ill. 2d 122 (2003), this court reconsidered and overruled Klingenberg. I dissented from the majority in Jones, in large part, because of the majority’s unwarranted abandonment of the principle of stare decisis and because I believe that the case should have been analyzed on an entirely different basis that would have avoided a reconsideration of Klingenberg. Today’s decision follows Jones. While I believe that in Jones this court unnecessarily and unwisely overruled Klingenberg, Jones is now the law and, accordingly, the result in this case is mandated by principles of stare decisis.
¶3CHIEF JUSTICE McMORROW and JUSTICE FREEMAN join in this special concurrence.