Opinion ID: 2531181
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Text: ¶ 20 Statutes are presumed constitutional, and the party challenging a statute has the burden of establishing a clear constitutional violation. People ex rel. Birkett v. Konetski, 233 Ill.2d 185, 200, 330 Ill.Dec. 761, 909 N.E.2d 783 (2009). Thus, this court will affirm the constitutionality of a statute if it is reasonably capable of such a determination ( People v. Johnson, 225 Ill.2d 573, 584, 312 Ill.Dec. 350, 870 N.E.2d 415 (2007)), and will resolve any doubt as to the statute's construction in favor of its validity ( People v. Boeckmann, 238 Ill.2d 1, 6-7, 342 Ill.Dec. 537, 932 N.E.2d 998 (2010)). Moreover, a challenge to the facial validity of a statute is the most difficult challenge to mount successfully because an enactment is invalid on its face only if no set of circumstances exists under which it would be valid. Napleton v. Village of Hinsdale, 229 Ill.2d 296, 305-06, 322 Ill.Dec. 548, 891 N.E.2d 839 (2008). The validity of a statute is a question of law, which this court reviews de novo. People v. Madrigal, 241 Ill.2d 463, 466, 350 Ill.Dec. 311, 948 N.E.2d 591 (2011). ¶ 21 The fifth and fourteenth amendments to the United States Constitution, as well as the due process clause of the Illinois Constitution, contain very similar prohibitions against depriving any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. See U.S. Const., amends. V, XIV; Ill. Const. 1970, art. I, § 2. Under People v. Caballes, 221 Ill.2d 282, 313-14, 303 Ill.Dec. 128, 851 N.E.2d 26 (2006), if there are cognate provisions of the two constitutions, as is the case here, Illinois courts will follow United States Supreme Court precedent unless one of the two conditions recognized in Caballes is present. Neither condition noted in Caballes is present here, and none of the parties argue otherwise. Accordingly, we will follow United States Supreme Court precedent construing the due process clause in circumstances similar to the present case. See People v. Pecoraro, 175 Ill.2d 294, 318, 222 Ill.Dec. 341, 677 N.E.2d 875 (1997) (this court declined to construe our state due process clause more broadly than the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment).