D.C. v. D.C.

PRESIDING JUSTICE INGLIS,

dissenting:

I respectfully dissent.

By holding that the escape rule applies only in felony-murder cases, the majority disregards a decade of established case law beginning with People v. Mumford (1979), 70 Ill. App. 3d 395, and culminating in People v. House (1992), 232 Ill. App. 3d 309. "[F]or purposes of determining legal accountability, the crime is not completed until the offender has escaped from the scene.” (People v. Johnson (1991), 220 Ill. App. 3d 550, 555.) Although, as the majority notes, this rule derives from a felony-murder case, there is no Illinois…