Court Opinion

ID: 9524093
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 02:49:57.511747+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:08:49.648987
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE KILBRIDE, specially concurring: In People v. Jones, 207 Ill. 2d 122 (2003), this court reconsidered and overruled Klingenberg. I dissented from the majority in Jones, in large part, because of the majority’s unwarranted abandonment of the principle of stare decisis and because I believe that the case should have been analyzed on an entirely different basis that would have avoided a reconsideration of Klingenberg. Today’s decision follows Jones. While I believe that in Jones this court unnecessarily and unwisely overruled Klingenberg, Jones is now the law and, accordingly, the result in this case is mandated by principles of stare decisis. CHIEF JUSTICE McMORROW and JUSTICE FREEMAN join in this special concurrence.