Court Opinion

ID: 9530251
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 03:58:39.48487+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:28:02.881971
License: Public Domain

Mr. JUSTICE EBERSPACHER, dissenting: I do not agree with the majority that this plain-clothes officer was acting reasonably under the circumstances when he required the Halloween pranksters to lie face down in the middle of the street in front of the headlights of his car nor when the officer struck the defendant on the head with his flashlight, knocking him down when defendant failed to move away from in front of the open car door. I likewise consider the sentence, which includes 60 days incarceration, at variance with the purpose and spirit of the law and manifestly in excess of the proscriptions of the Illinois Constitution which requires that all penalties should be proportioned to the nature of the offense.