Unless City Hall comes up with a new – and legally sound – gun ordinance within six months, Chicago could have local gun shops opening all across the city. A federal judge has ruled the city was going too far by outlawing gun stores from operating in the city. The ruling not only made it
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Illinois joined 39 other states with the turning of the year Thursday by raising the age for juvenile jurisdiction for most felonies to 17 – a reform for which juvenile justice groups have been rallying since 2010. The new law does not change jurisdiction of some felonies, including many violent offenses, that merit an automatic
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As the Illinois starts to put pension reform behind it and move on to other pressing issues, lawmakers are considering increasing penalties for certain gun possession felonies as a way to curb the high rate of gun violence in Chicago and some other pockets in the state. The proposal on the table, HB2265, is for
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More than a third of juveniles convicted of serious crimes said in a recent study they had falsely admitted to a crime they did not commit. The study, which appeared in the journal “Law and Human Behavior,” focused on 193 males aged 14 to 17 incarcerated in a California juvenile justice facility. Of the 35.2 percent who reported they
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