093_HB3361

 
                                     LRB093 09582 RLC 09820 b

 1        AN ACT in relation to criminal law.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5. The Code of  Criminal  Procedure  of  1963  is
 5    amended by adding Section 103-10 as follows:

 6        (725 ILCS 5/103-10 new)
 7        Sec.  103-10.  Ascertaining  suspect's mental capacity in
 8    homicide cases.  Before  conducting  an  interrogation  of  a
 9    suspect  in  a  homicide case, the peace officer shall make a
10    reasonable attempt to determine the suspect's mental capacity
11    and if the suspect reasonably appears to the  officer  to  be
12    mentally retarded, the peace officer may only ask the suspect
13    nonleading  questions  and shall be prohibited from conveying
14    to the suspect the impression that the officer believes  that
15    the suspect is guilty of the homicide.