Illinois Armed Robbery Law
<h2> <center> United States of America v. William D. Spears </h2> </center>
Winnebago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with trafficking cocaine and illegally possessing a loaded firearm. William Spears, age 68 was arrested in June 2024 following a 4-month narcotics investigation. At the time of his arrest, Spears was in possession of three and a half grams of cocaine, which he had been planning to sell to another person. Followin... More...
$ (11-07-2026 - IL)<h2> <center> State of Illinois v. Chevazz Campbell </h2> </center>
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with first degree murder. Chevazz Campbel,age 37, stabbed and killed a CTA employee. Under Illinois law (720 ILCS 5/9-1), first degree murder is defined as killing an individual without lawful justification when a person does any of the following: • Intentional Murder: They intend to kill or do great bodily harm... More...
$ (10-12-2026 - IL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Andrew Franklin </h2> </center>
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with robbery and kidnapping. Reported by <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28729&z=74119&s=OK" target="_new">Kent Morlan</a> Andrew Franklin, 19, of Chciago, DASHUN BROWN, 24, of Chicago, posed as a food delivery driver to cause an individual in the residence to open the front doo... More...
$ (06-16-2026 - IL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Dennis McKay </h2> </center>
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented by Defendant charged with three counts of Hobbs Act robbery affecting commerce in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a) and one count of discharging a firearm in connection to a crime of violence in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A)(iii). Reported by Kent Morlan The Defendant elected to plead guilty. The U.S. Probation Office for th... More...
$ (05-25-2026 - IL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Rickey Martin, Jr. </h2> </center>
East St. Louis, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with armed robbery. Rickey Martin, Jr., 36, robbed a motel in Maryville, Illinois at gunpoint.... More...
$ (03-26-2026 - IL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Rickey Martin, Jr., </h2> </center>
East St. Louis, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of Hobbs Act robbery and one count of brandish and use of a firearm during a crime of violence. Rickey Martin, Jr., 36, robbed a motel in Maryville, Illinois at gunpoint. Martin admitted to robbing the owner of a motel in Maryville in May 2023. He brandished a firearm loaded with an extended m... More...
$ (03-16-2026 - IL)State of Illinois v. Pezhman Gilani Yahyavi and Mahmood Bashang
Wheaton, Illinois, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with armed robbery. Pezhman Gilani Yahyavi, 46, and Mahmood Bashang, 30, were each charged one count of disorderly conduct, falsely reporting a crime. Bashang allegedly told the dispatcher the two were jewelry vendors returning from a show in Rosemont when three armed offenders robbed them of between $1.5 million... More...
$ (02-27-2026 - IL)the People of the State of Illinois v. Alfred Roland Walker
Bloomington, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with home invasion (720 ILCS 5/19-6(a)(3) (West 2016)), armed robbery (id. § 18-2(a)(2)), aggravated battery with a firearm (id. § 12-3.05(e)(1)), and aggravated discharge of a firearm (id. § 24-1.2(a)(2)).... More...
$ (02-17-2026 - IL)United States of America v. Donte Hughes
Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with robbing a United States Postal Service letter carrier. DONTE HUGHES and another individual approached the carrier from behind as she was delivering mail. The other individual wrapped both arms around the carrier, preventing her from moving, while Hughes reached into the carrier’s pocket and demanded property. ... More...
$ (02-17-2026 - IL)State of Illinois v. Montel Harkins
East St. Louis, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represents the defendant charged with murder. Montel Harkins of East St. Louis faces charges of first-degree murder and armed robbery Kaleb Davis of Cape Girardeau who was shot to death.... More...
$ (10-01-2025 - IL)<H2> United States of America v. Edmund Singleton
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with motor vehicle theft carjacking. EDMUND SINGLETON and two co-defendants conspired to commit the carjackings on a single night in November 2022. In the first carjacking, Singleton drove the trio in a stolen car to a gas station in the Roseland neighborhood of Chicago, where the co-defendants violently took an Infin... More...
$ (01-16-2026 - IL)<H2> United States of America v. Labar Spann
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a leader of the Four Corner Hustlers street gang of participating in a criminal organization that terrorized the West Side of Chicago for two decades by committing murders, robberies, extortions, witness tampering, and drug dealing. The Four Corner Hustlers operated primarily in the Chicago neighborhoods of ... More...
$ (12-17-2025 - IL)State of Illinois v. Reginald Flemister-Tolson
Peoria, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with Home Invasion, Armed Robbery, and Aggravated Battery with a Firearm.<br> <br> On Wednesday, November 26, 2025, at approximately 11:40 a.m., Peoria Police Detectives observed a second suspect connected to this ongoing investigation at a residence in the 3400 block of West Oakcrest Drive (Lexington Hills Apartments). De... More...
$0 (11-27-2025 - IL)United States of America v. Marol M. Aguiar Rodriguez
Peoria, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with robbery of property or money.<br> <br> Beginning on a date unknown, but not later than on or about February 10, 2025, and continuing up to on or about February 23, 2025, in the Central District of Illinois, the Defendants, Conspiracy to Commit Bank Larceny. All in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 211... More...
$0 (10-16-2025 - IL)United States of America v. Falandis Russell and Terrance Williams
Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with conspiracy to<br> obstruct commerce by robbery and multiple counts of obstruction of commerce by robbery.<br> <br> For nearly a year and a half, Russell and Williams committed a series of armed commercial robberies throughout Chicago. They were eventually indicted for conspiracy to obstruct commerce by robbery in v... More...
$0 (06-11-2025 - IL)United States of America v. Deaunta Sentrel Tyler
Peoria, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the defendant charged with attempted robbery.<br> <br> In January 2017, Deaunta Tyler, accompanied by Ledell Tyler and Dalvent Jackson, forcibly entered a home in Rock Island, Illinois, armed with a rifle and a handgun and in search of cocaine. Instead of drugs, they found a family spending a quiet evening together. With weapons brandished, the ... More...
$0 (06-05-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Demarkee D. Jimerson </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> East St. Louis, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug distribution, gun charges </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Jury convicts Cahokia Heights man of drug distribution, gun charges</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> A southern Illinois jury convicted a Cahokia He... More...
$0 (04-24-2025 - IL)State of Illinois v. Johnell Smith
Rock Island, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree murder and home invasion.<br> <br> Johnell Smith was accused of shooting and killing 17-year-old Danny Taylor in 2023.<br> <br> Prosecutors argued that Smith and co-defendant Napoleon Jackson went to Taylor's home in the early hours of April 14, 2023, to rob him. During the attempted robbery, Taylor w... More...
$0 (04-04-2025 - IL)The People of the State of Illinois v. Tavion Hodges
Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawful use or possession of a weapon by a felon.<br> <br> At trial, evidence established that officers curbed defendant's vehicle in Chicago on September 6, 2021. As officers removed defendant from the vehicle, they saw what appeared to be a handgun "falling from his person." A firearm was recovered between "defend... More...
$0 (03-10-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Lee O. Griffin, Jr., Antonio T. Harris, Taneisha M. Davis, Patrick D. Johnson </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Benton, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with Brink's Truck Robbery in Madison </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Four Facing Federal Charges for Brink's Truck Robbery in Madison<br> </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Lee O. Griffin, Jr., 23, of Cahokia Heights, is fa... More...
$0 (01-08-2025 - IL)The People of the State of Illinois v. Cordeo Blan
Rockford, Illinois criminal Defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being an armed habitual criminal, et al.<br> <br> Defendant was denied pretrial release.<br> <br> egal issue Can the denial of a defendant's motion for relief from pretrial detention be justified based on circumstantial evidence and the absence of mitigating conditions for release?<br> <br> Key Phrases Pretrial deten... More...
$0 (01-06-2025 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Emmanuel Lance Howard; Evander Allen Jordan </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Peoria, IL criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit armed robbery and multiple robbery and firearms charges </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Two Quad Cities Men Sentenced for Multiple Armed Robbery and Firearm Charges</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><center><h2><font... More...
$0 (12-23-2023 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Emmanuel Lance Howard, Evander Allen Jordan </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Peoria, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with conspiracy to commit armed robbery and multiple robbery and firearms charges </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Two Quad Cities Men Sentenced for Multiple Armed Robbery and Firearm Charges</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><center><h2><f... More...
$0 (12-29-2024 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Emmanuel Lance Howard; Evander Allen Jordan </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Springfield, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with conspiracy to commit armed robbery and multiple robbery and firearms charges. </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Two Quad Cities Men Sentenced for Multiple Armed Robbery and Firearm Charges </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><b... More...
$0 (12-23-2024 - IL)State of Illinois v. Frederick O. Goss
<h2><br> Mount Vernon, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with armed robbery.<br> <h2><br> Following a jury trial in the circuit court of Jefferson County, defendant, Frederick O. Goss, was convicted of armed robbery (720 ILCS 5/18-2(a)(2) (West 2020)) and aggravated discharge of a firearm (id. § 24-1.2(a)(3)). The trial court sentenced defendant to concurrent t... More...
$0 (12-04-2024 - IL)State of Illinois v. Jeremy Peters
<h2><br> Joliet, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with armed violence.<br> </h2><br> <br> Defendant was charged by indictment with armed violence (720 ILCS 5/33A-2(a) (West 2022)), burglary (id. § 19-1(a)), unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon (UPWF) (id. § 24-1.1(a)), defacing identification marks on a firearm (id. § 24-5(b)), and theft (id. § 1... More...
$0 (12-04-2024 - IL)State of Illinois v. Kemion D. Dorris
<h2><br> Champaign, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant seeking postconviction relief.<br> <h2><br> After a bench trial, the defendant, Kemion D. Dorris, was found guilty of being an armed habitual criminal. He was sentenced to imprisonment for 20 years.<br> <br> Key Phrases Postconviction petition dismissal. Armed habitual criminal. Appellate counsel withdrawal. Motions in ... More...
$0 (12-05-2024 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Thomas L. Hawkins </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Participating in Two Robberies in Rockford </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Man Sentenced to More Than Eleven Years in Prison for Participating in Two Robberies in Rockford </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> A Rockfor... More...
$0 (11-18-2024 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Christopher Porter </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Robbing Three Banks at Gunpoint </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Chicago Man Sentenced to 20 Years in Federal Prison for Robbing Three Banks at Gunpoint</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> A Chicago man has been sentenced ... More...
$0 (11-18-2024 - IL)The People of the State of Illinois v. Chad Martin
<h2><br> Springfield, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree murder.<br> </h2><br> <br> On September 17, 2019, defendant entered a negotiated guilty plea to first degree murder (720 ILCS 5/9-1(a)(3) (West 2018)) in Sangamon County case No. 18-CF-1085 and aggravated robbery (720 ILCS 5/18-1(b) (West 2018)) in case No. 17-CF-767. In exchange, the State d... More...
$0 (11-15-2024 - IL)The People of the State of Illinois v. Antonio T. Monroe, Jr.
<h2><br> Peoria, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with vehicular hijacking.<br> </h2><br> <br> The State charged defendant in May 2021 with aggravated vehicular hijacking (720 ILCS 5/18-4(a)(4) (West 2020)), vehicular hijacking (id. § 18-3(a)), and unlawful possession of a stolen motor vehicle (625 ILCS 5/4-103(a)(1) (West 2020)). According to the charges, defe... More...
$0 (11-15-2024 - IL)Hope McMurry-Schoon and Thomas Schoon v. Justin Cox
<h2><br> Joliet, Illinois family law lawyers represented the Plaintiffs and the Defendant in an adoption matter.<br> </h2><br> <br> G.B.C. was born on March 14, 2020. Respondent is G.B.C.'s father. G.B.C.'s mother consented to her adoption and is no longer a party to this action. In November 2019, respondent was arrested and charged with, among other offenses, aggravated battery of a peace officer... More...
$0 (11-15-2024 - IL)<H2> Brian J. Schell v. Eric Schellhardt
<h2><br> East St. Louis, Illinois civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff.<br> </h2><br> <br> At the time the events in this case began, Schell was employed by the Illinois Department of Corrections ("IDOCâ€) in a position that required him to possess an Illinois Firearm Owners Identification ("FOIDâ€) card.<br> <br> In the fall of 2018, Schell and his wife Sandra Schell were gett... More...
$0 (01-23-2024 - IL)State of Illinois v. Charles A. Payne
<h2><br> Granite City, Illinois aggravated assault of a peace officer for making threats, while armed.<br> </h2><br> <br> Charles A. Payne, age 60, was accused of displaying a firearm and making threats against officers assigned to the U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force on May 24, 2023.... More...
$0 (08-23-2024 - IL)The People of the State of Illinois v. Lafayette Watts
<h2><br> Chicago, Illinois first-degree murder and aggravated robbery charges criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant.<br> </h2><br> <br> <br> Defendant, LaFayette Watts, was charged with the 1998 first-degree murder of his girlfriend, Shanelle Jackson, and the attempted first-degree murder and aggravated battery of Shanelle's nine-year old son, Stephon Thompson. Defendant was convicted ... More...
$0 (08-16-2024 - IL)The People of the State of Illinois v. Melvin Addison </center
<h2><br> Chicago, Illinois robbery and felony murder criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant.<br> </h2><br> <br> <br> Following a jury trial, Addison was found guilty of robbery and felony murder predicated on robbery and received a consecutive sentence of 60 years on the felony murder conviction and 7 years on the robbery conviction. Addison appealed, arguing his 60-year sentence for fe... More...
$0 (08-16-2024 - IL)State of Illinois v. Jason Ostrego
<h2><br> Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.<br> </h2><br> <br> Jason Ortega stabbed Anton Patterson on on Dec. 31, 2022, and was recorded on cell phone video by witnesses. The 28-year-old Ostrego can be heard on the recording calling Patterson derogatory racial names, including the n-word. Prosecutors charge... More...
$0 (06-21-2024 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Kyle W. Harris </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Springfield, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Springfield Man Sentenced to 30 months in Prison for Bank Robbery</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> The government showed that on December 15, 2021, Klyle W. Harris, age 29,robbed ... More...
$0 (06-04-2024 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Treveon J. Ramsey </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> East St. Louis, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Committing Armed Robberies at Metro East Gas Stations </font <br> </color="red"></b></h2></center></i></i><b><h2><center></i><br> </b> Belleville Man Gets 20-Year Federal Prison Sentence for Committing Armed Robberies at Metro East Gas Stations </h2></center><br> <br> Tre... More...
$0 (05-15-2024 - IL)<h1> United States of America v. Jaheim Henyard </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Carjacking Four Vehicles and Robbing a UPS Truck </font <br> </color="red"></b></h2></center></i></i><b><h2><center></i><br> </b> Chicago Man Sentenced to More Than Eleven Years in Prison for Carjacking Four Vehicles and Robbing a UPS Truck </h2></center><br> <br> A Chicago man ... More...
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