# People v. Wooters

> Illinois Supreme Court · November 18, 1999 · 188 Ill. 2d 500

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9819030

## Case

- **Full name:** The PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. JESSICA WOOTERS, Appellee
- **Court:** Illinois Supreme Court
- **Decided:** November 18, 1999
- **Citations:** 188 Ill. 2d 500; 243 Ill. Dec. 33; 722 N.E.2d 1102; 1999 Ill. LEXIS 1480
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Freeman
- **Judges:** McMorrow, Freeman, Bilandic, Heiple, Rathje
- **Cited by:** 91 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- noting that most provisions of the enactment related to the subject of the act — crime—but that all did not and, therefore, the public act in question violated the single subject rule
- noting that most provisions of the enactment related to the subject of the act—crime—but that all did not and, therefore, the public act in question violated the single subject rule

## Opinion text

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.

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