Sentences with phrase «forcible felonies»
Those offenses include forcible felonies, weapons violations, certain drug offenses, violations of the Humane Care for Animals Act including animal fighting or other animal cruelty or fighting laws.
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However, Illinois state law permits the use of deadly force, or force likely to cause great bodily harm, when it is necessary to prevent someone from committing a forcible felony.
776.013 (3) A person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and who is attacked in any other place where he or she has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.
Not exact matches
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the city would set aside $ 16.4 million to provide free legal services to undocumented New Yorkers facing deportation — but told the Observer that those convicted of violent felonies, forcible touching, illicitly dealing in prescription drugs and possibly other crimes, will not benefit from the program.
Parkinson is a defendant in two related but separate felony forcible sex abuse cases from 2004 in which police say he sexually assaulted two women he met through dating Web sites.
The guilty plea was for forcible sodomy, a first - degree felony that carried the five years to life sentence.
A person who uses defensive force shall be presumed to have reasonably feared imminent death or great bodily harm, or the commission of a felony upon him or another or upon his dwelling, or against a vehicle which he was occupying... if the person against whom the defensive force was used, was in the process of unlawfully and forcibly entering, or had unlawfully and forcibly entered, a dwelling, occupied vehicle... and the person who used defensive force knew or had reason to believe that the forcible entry or unlawful and forcible act was occurring or had occurred.