104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 HB1825 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. LRB104 09228 RLC 19285 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 HB1825 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. LRB104 09228 RLC 19285 b LRB104 09228 RLC 19285 b A BILL FOR
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 HB1825 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
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.
LRB104 09228 RLC 19285 b LRB104 09228 RLC 19285 b
LRB104 09228 RLC 19285 b
A BILL FOR
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HB1825 LRB104 09228 RLC 19285 b
1 AN ACT concerning criminal law.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by
5 changing Section 5-2 as follows:
6 (720 ILCS 5/5-2) (from Ch. 38, par. 5-2)
7 Sec. 5-2. When accountability exists. A person is legally
8 accountable for the conduct of another when:
9 (a) having a mental state described by the statute
10 defining the offense, he or she causes another to perform
11 the conduct, and the other person in fact or by reason of
12 legal incapacity lacks such a mental state;
13 (b) the statute defining the offense makes him or her
14 so accountable; or
15 (c) either before or during the commission of an
16 offense, and with the intent to promote or facilitate that
17 commission, he or she solicits, aids, abets, agrees, or
18 attempts to aid that other person in the planning or
19 commission of the offense; or .
20 (d) acting as an aggressor as provided in Section 7-4,
21 he or she causes another to use force in defense of himself
22 or another under Section 7-1 and that use of force is the
23 proximate cause of injury to a third party.
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 HB1825 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
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.
LRB104 09228 RLC 19285 b LRB104 09228 RLC 19285 b
LRB104 09228 RLC 19285 b
A BILL FOR
720 ILCS 5/5-2 from Ch. 38, par. 5-2
LRB104 09228 RLC 19285 b
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