315 Ill. App. 3d 22 - People v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
January 2012
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Payton v. New York · 122 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Enoch · 164 Ill. 2d 104 - People v. Jeffries · 136 Ill. 2d 66 - People v. Foskey · 163 Ill. 2d 93 - People v. Novak
Most-quoted passages
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““It is clear that the offense of involuntary manslaughter requires a mental state of recklessness whereas felony murder requires no mental state independent of the mental state of the predicate felony. See People v. Sandy, 188 Ill. App. 3d 833, 842-44 , 544 N.E.2d 1248, 1254 (1989) (involuntary manslaughter is not a lesser-included offense of felony murder because it requires a reckless mental state and felony murder does not require any mental state independent of that required by the underlying felony); see People v. McCarroll, 168 Ill. App. 3d 1020, 1023 , 523 N.E.2d 150, 152 (1988) (‘if death resulted from recklessness or even accident during the commission of the underlying felony, the defendant would still be guilty of felony murder’). Essentially, involuntary manslaughter requires proof of a more culpable mental state than felony murder. Therefore, where the sole murder charge against a defendant is based on felony murder, no involuntary manslaughter instruction need be given. McCarroll, 168 Ill. App. 3d at 1023 , 523 N.E.2d at 152 . Since involuntary manslaughter is not a lesser-included offense of felony murder, we need not discuss the second prong of the inquiry — whether evidence exists to permit a jury to rationally find Taylor guilty of the lesser offense.” Williams, 315 Ill. App. 3d at 32-33 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“within four hours of learning of his involvement from the confessions of the other defendants”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“strong reason to believe that the suspect was in the premises”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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