{"id":120,"date":"2007-09-25T08:38:32","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T14:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/25\/new-accountability-case\/"},"modified":"2007-09-27T08:15:23","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T14:15:23","slug":"new-accountability-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/09\/25\/new-accountability-case\/","title":{"rendered":"New Accountability Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A defendant who is seated in the car from which a shot is fired, who remains in the car as it speeds away from the scene of the crime, and who is arrested later while still in the car, is not\u00a0accountable for the shooting unless it can be proven that he had the intent to commit the shooting. <em>People v. Washington<\/em>, No. 2-05-0826.\u00a0 The Second District recently reversed\u00a0an attempt murder\u00a0conviction of a defendant under these ciricumstances.\u00a0 Addressing accountability, the <em>Washington<\/em> court stated the following:<em> &#8220;our supreme court has made clear that mere presence of a defendant at the scene of a crime, even when joined with flight from the crime\u00a0and knowledge of its commission, is insufficient to establish accountability.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A defendant who is seated in the car from which a shot is fired, who remains in the car as it speeds away from the scene of the crime, and who is arrested later while still in the car, is not\u00a0accountable for the shooting unless it can be proven that he had the intent to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}