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Public Act 103-0341


 

Public Act 0341 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

  
  
  

 


 
Public Act 103-0341
 
HB3253 EnrolledLRB103 26863 RLC 53227 b

    AN ACT concerning criminal law.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Juvenile Court Act of 1987 is amended by
changing Section 5-401.6 as follows:
 
    (705 ILCS 405/5-401.6)
    Sec. 5-401.6. Prohibition of deceptive tactics.
    (a) In this Section:
    "Custodial interrogation" means any interrogation (i)
during which a reasonable person in the subject's position
would consider himself or herself to be in custody and (ii)
during which a question is asked that is reasonably likely to
elicit an incriminating response.
    "Deception" means the knowing communication of false facts
about evidence or unauthorized statements regarding leniency
by a law enforcement officer or juvenile officer to a subject
of custodial interrogation.
    "Person with a severe or profound intellectual disability"
means a person (i) whose intelligence quotient does not exceed
40 or (ii) whose intelligence quotient does not exceed 55 and
who suffers from significant mental illness to the extent that
the person's ability to exercise rational judgment is
impaired.
    "Place of detention" means a building or a police station
that is a place of operation for a municipal police department
or county sheriff department or other law enforcement agency
at which persons are or may be held in detention in connection
with criminal charges against those persons or allegations
that those persons are delinquent minors.
    "Protected person" means: a minor who, at the time of the
commission of the offense, was under 18 years of age; or a
person with a severe or profound intellectual disability.
    (b) An oral, written, or sign language confession of a
protected person minor, who at the time of the commission of
the offense was under 18 years of age, made as a result of a
custodial interrogation conducted at a police station or other
place of detention on or after the effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly shall be presumed
to be inadmissible as evidence against the protected person
minor making the confession in a criminal proceeding or a
juvenile court proceeding for an act that if committed by an
adult would be a misdemeanor offense under Article 11 of the
Criminal Code of 2012 or a felony offense under the Criminal
Code of 2012 if, during the custodial interrogation, a law
enforcement officer or juvenile officer knowingly engages in
deception.
    (c) The presumption of inadmissibility of a confession of
a protected person minor, who at the time of the commission of
the offense was under 18 years of age, at a custodial
interrogation at a police station or other place of detention,
when such confession is procured through the knowing use of
deception, may be overcome by a preponderance of the evidence
that the confession was voluntarily given, based on the
totality of the circumstances.
    (d) The burden of going forward with the evidence and the
burden of proving that a confession was voluntary shall be on
the State. Objection to the failure of the State to call all
material witnesses on the issue of whether the confession was
voluntary must be made in the trial court.
(Source: P.A. 102-101, eff. 1-1-22.)
 
    Section 10. The Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 is
amended by changing Section 103-2.2 as follows:
 
    (725 ILCS 5/103-2.2)
    Sec. 103-2.2. Prohibition of deceptive tactics.
    (a) In this Section:
    "Custodial interrogation" means any interrogation during
which (i) a reasonable person in the subject's position would
consider himself or herself to be in custody and (ii) during
which a question is asked that is reasonably likely to elicit
an incriminating response.
    "Deception" means the knowing communication of false facts
about evidence or unauthorized statements regarding leniency
by a law enforcement officer or juvenile officer to a subject
of custodial interrogation.
    "Place of detention" means a building or a police station
that is a place of operation for a municipal police department
or county sheriff department or other law enforcement agency,
not a courthouse, that is owned or operated by a law
enforcement agency at which persons are or may be held in
detention in connection with criminal charges against those
persons.
    "Protected person" means: a minor who, at the time of the
commission of the offense, was under 18 years of age; or a
person with a severe or profound intellectual disability.
    (b) An oral, written, or sign language confession of a
protected person minor, who at the time of the commission of
the offense was under 18 years of age, made as a result of a
custodial interrogation conducted at a police station or other
place of detention on or after the effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly shall be presumed
to be inadmissible as evidence against the protected person
minor making the confession in a criminal proceeding or a
juvenile court proceeding for an act that if committed by an
adult would be a misdemeanor offense under Article 11 of the
Criminal Code of 2012 or a felony offense under the Criminal
Code of 2012 if, during the custodial interrogation, a law
enforcement officer or juvenile officer knowingly engages in
deception.
    (c) The presumption of inadmissibility of a confession of
a protected person minor, who at the time of the commission of
the offense was under 18 years of age, at a custodial
interrogation at a police station or other place of detention,
when such confession is procured through the knowing use of
deception, may be overcome by a preponderance of the evidence
that the confession was voluntarily given, based on the
totality of the circumstances.
    (d) The burden of going forward with the evidence and the
burden of proving that a confession was voluntary shall be on
the State. Objection to the failure of the State to call all
material witnesses on the issue of whether the confession was
voluntary must be made in the trial court.
(Source: P.A. 102-101, eff. 1-1-22.)

Effective Date: 1/1/2024