Court Opinion

ID: 9523121
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 02:36:15.297106+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:04:34.715844
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE TURNER, specially concurring: I fully concur in the majority opinion and add the following. “[I]n the context of the criminal statute involved, the established, plaint,] and ordinary meaning of ‘apprehension’ is a ‘seizure, taking, or arrest of a person on a criminal charge.’ ” (Emphasis added.) Miller, 253 Ill. App. 3d at 1036, 628 N.E.2d at 897, quoting Black’s Law Dictionary 101 (6th ed. 1990). Here, defendant had been seized when she swallowed the substance but the officer had not placed her under arrest. In fact, by swallowing the substance, she destroyed evidence that may have led to her arrest for possession of a controlled or look-alike substance. Accordingly, the State proved defendant swallowed the substance with the intent to prevent her arrest.