Court Opinion

ID: 9819030
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 06:18:03.905496+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:35:08.905991
License: Public Domain

CHIEF JUSTICE FREEMAN, specially concurring: I agree that this court must affirm the circuit court’s ruling that section 5 — 8—l(a)(l)(c)(ii) of the Unified Code of Corrections (730 ILCS 5/5 — 8—l(a)(l)(c)(ii) (West 1998), as amended by Public Act 89 — 203, is unconstitutional. I reach this conclusion because the statute was enacted in violation of the single subject clause of the Illinois Constitution. I, therefore, fully join in section B of the “Analysis” section in the opinion authored by Justice McMorrow. See 188 Ill. 2d at 510-520. However, I do not join in section A of the “Analysis” (see 188 Ill. 2d at 505-510, and I express no opinion as to the issues discussed therein. JUSTICES BILANDIC, HEIPLE and RATHJE join in this special concurrence.