Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session

Illinois House Bill HB3534 Compare Versions

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1	1	103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB3534 Introduced , by Rep. Jay Hoffman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 720 ILCS 5/5-2 from Ch. 38, par. 5-2 Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person is legally accountable for the conduct of another when, acting as an aggressor as provided in the Code, he or she causes another to use force in defense of himself or another and that use of force is the proximate cause of injury to a third party. LRB103 28376 RLC 54756 b A BILL FOR 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB3534 Introduced , by Rep. Jay Hoffman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 720 ILCS 5/5-2 from Ch. 38, par. 5-2 720 ILCS 5/5-2 from Ch. 38, par. 5-2 Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person is legally accountable for the conduct of another when, acting as an aggressor as provided in the Code, he or she causes another to use force in defense of himself or another and that use of force is the proximate cause of injury to a third party. LRB103 28376 RLC 54756 b LRB103 28376 RLC 54756 b A BILL FOR
2	2	103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB3534 Introduced , by Rep. Jay Hoffman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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5	5	Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person is legally accountable for the conduct of another when, acting as an aggressor as provided in the Code, he or she causes another to use force in defense of himself or another and that use of force is the proximate cause of injury to a third party.
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11	11	1 AN ACT concerning criminal law.
12	12	2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
13	13	3 represented in the General Assembly:
14	14	4 Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by
15	15	5 changing Section 5-2 as follows:
16	16	6 (720 ILCS 5/5-2) (from Ch. 38, par. 5-2)
17	17	7 Sec. 5-2. When accountability exists. A person is legally
18	18	8 accountable for the conduct of another when:
19	19	9 (a) having a mental state described by the statute
20	20	10 defining the offense, he or she causes another to perform
21	21	11 the conduct, and the other person in fact or by reason of
22	22	12 legal incapacity lacks such a mental state;
23	23	13 (b) the statute defining the offense makes him or her
24	24	14 so accountable; or
25	25	15 (c) either before or during the commission of an
26	26	16 offense, and with the intent to promote or facilitate that
27	27	17 commission, he or she solicits, aids, abets, agrees, or
28	28	18 attempts to aid that other person in the planning or
29	29	19 commission of the offense; or .
30	30	20 (d) acting as an aggressor as provided in Section 7-4,
31	31	21 he or she causes another to use force in defense of himself
32	32	22 or another under Section 7-1 and that use of force is the
33	33	23 proximate cause of injury to a third party.
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37	37	103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB3534 Introduced , by Rep. Jay Hoffman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
38	38	720 ILCS 5/5-2 from Ch. 38, par. 5-2 720 ILCS 5/5-2 from Ch. 38, par. 5-2
39	39	720 ILCS 5/5-2 from Ch. 38, par. 5-2
40	40	Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person is legally accountable for the conduct of another when, acting as an aggressor as provided in the Code, he or she causes another to use force in defense of himself or another and that use of force is the proximate cause of injury to a third party.
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68	68	1 When 2 or more persons engage in a common criminal design
69	69	2 or agreement, any acts in the furtherance of that common
70	70	3 design committed by one party are considered to be the acts of
71	71	4 all parties to the common design or agreement and all are
72	72	5 equally responsible for the consequences of those further
73	73	6 acts. Mere presence at the scene of a crime does not render a
74	74	7 person accountable for an offense; a person's presence at the
75	75	8 scene of a crime, however, may be considered with other
76	76	9 circumstances by the trier of fact when determining
77	77	10 accountability.
78	78	11 A person is not so accountable, however, unless the
79	79	12 statute defining the offense provides otherwise, if:
80	80	13 (1) he or she is a victim of the offense committed;
81	81	14 (2) the offense is so defined that his or her conduct
82	82	15 was inevitably incident to its commission; or
83	83	16 (3) before the commission of the offense, he or she
84	84	17 terminates his or her effort to promote or facilitate that
85	85	18 commission and does one of the following: (i) wholly
86	86	19 deprives his or her prior efforts of effectiveness in that
87	87	20 commission, (ii) gives timely warning to the proper law
88	88	21 enforcement authorities, or (iii) otherwise makes proper
89	89	22 effort to prevent the commission of the offense.
90	90	23 (Source: P.A. 96-710, eff. 1-1-10.)
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