People v. Carrie

The defendant, Brian L. Carrie, was convicted of two counts of threatening a public official (720 ILCS 5/12 — 9(a) (West 2002)) for directing verbal threats to a municipal police officer and a county-dispatcher, incident to his arrest on domestic battery charges. He was sentenced to four years of imprisonment and one year of mandatory supervised release on each count, to run concurrently. He seeks the reversal of his convictions on the basis that police officers, dispatchers, and correctional officers are not “public officials” as that term is defined in section 12 — 9 of the Criminal Code of…