Bill Text: IL HB3534 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person is legally accountable for the conduct of another when, acting as an aggressor as provided in the Code, he or she causes another to use force in defense of himself or another and that use of force is the proximate cause of injury to a third party.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-05 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3534 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HB3534-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | changing Section 5-2 as follows:
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| 6 | (720 ILCS 5/5-2) (from Ch. 38, par. 5-2)
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| 7 | Sec. 5-2. When
accountability exists. A person is legally | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | accountable for the conduct of another when:
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| 9 | (a) having a mental state described by the statute | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | defining the offense,
he or she causes another to perform | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | the conduct, and the other person in fact or
by reason of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | legal incapacity lacks such a mental state;
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| 13 | (b) the statute defining the offense makes him or her | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | so accountable; or
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| 15 | (c) either before or during the commission of an | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | offense, and with the
intent to promote or facilitate that | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | commission, he or she solicits, aids, abets,
agrees, or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | attempts to aid that other person in the planning or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | commission
of the offense; or . | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | (d) acting as an aggressor as provided in Section 7-4, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | he or she causes another to use force in defense of himself | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | or another under Section 7-1 and that use of force is the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | proximate cause of injury to a third party. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | When 2 or more persons engage in a common criminal design | ||||||
| 2 | or agreement, any acts in the furtherance of that common | ||||||
| 3 | design committed by one party are considered to be the acts of | ||||||
| 4 | all parties to the common design or agreement and all are | ||||||
| 5 | equally responsible for the consequences of those further | ||||||
| 6 | acts. Mere presence at the scene of a crime does not render a | ||||||
| 7 | person accountable for an offense; a person's presence at the | ||||||
| 8 | scene of a crime, however, may be considered with other | ||||||
| 9 | circumstances by the trier of fact when determining | ||||||
| 10 | accountability. | ||||||
| 11 | A person is not so accountable, however, unless the | ||||||
| 12 | statute
defining the offense provides otherwise, if:
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| 13 | (1) he or she is a victim of the offense committed;
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| 14 | (2) the offense is so defined that his or her conduct | ||||||
| 15 | was inevitably
incident to its commission; or
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| 16 | (3) before the commission of the offense, he or she | ||||||
| 17 | terminates his or her effort to
promote or facilitate that | ||||||
| 18 | commission and does one of the following: (i)
wholly | ||||||
| 19 | deprives his or her prior efforts of effectiveness in that | ||||||
| 20 | commission, (ii)
gives timely warning to the proper law | ||||||
| 21 | enforcement authorities, or (iii)
otherwise makes proper | ||||||
| 22 | effort to prevent the commission of the offense.
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| 23 | (Source: P.A. 96-710, eff. 1-1-10.)
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