# People v. Watts

> Illinois Supreme Court · February 20, 1998 · 181 Ill. 2d 133

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9860769

## Case

- **Full name:** The PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. DAN WATTS, Appellee
- **Court:** Illinois Supreme Court
- **Decided:** February 20, 1998
- **Citations:** 181 Ill. 2d 133; 229 Ill. Dec. 542; 692 N.E.2d 315; 1998 Ill. LEXIS 350
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Miller
- **Judges:** McMorrow, Miller
- **Cited by:** 57 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9860769

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that a provision in the Home Repair Fraud Act was unconstitutional because it created a mandatory presumption that, if certain facts existed, then a contractor made promises with the intent not to perform the work or with knowledge that the work would not be performed
- holding that a statutory provision was severable where it was added six years after the statute was enacted

## Opinion text

JUSTICE MILLER, specially concurring:
I join in the judgment of the court and the analysis of the federal constitutional issue. Because the case is decided on federal constitutional grounds, there is no need for us to consider here whether the Illinois Constitution independently requires the same result. Accordingly, I do not join the brief discussion in the majority opinion regarding a state constitutional basis for our decision in this case. 181 Ill. 2d at 147.

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