Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee

Filed: 2/25/2010

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5413

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5413 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 is
5 amended by adding Section 111-2.5 as follows:
 
6     (725 ILCS 5/111-2.5 new)
7     Sec. 111-2.5. State's Attorney; homicide; domestic
8 violence. The State's Attorney may not charge a person with
9 first degree murder, second degree murder, involuntary
10 manslaughter, reckless homicide, or drug-induced homicide if
11 the person killed had a documented history or pattern of
12 physically abusing the person who committed the homicide and
13 both the person who committed the homicide and the person
14 killed were, at the time of the offense or previously, family
15 or household members as defined in the Illinois Domestic
16 Violence Act of 1986.".