People v. Davison

Chief Justice Fitzgerald and Justices Freeman, Thomas, and Karmeier concurred in the judgment and opinion.

Justice Garman specially concurred, with opinion, joined by Justice Burke.

OPINION

This appeal requires us to determine whether the offense of mob action properly served as the predicate foreible felony for defendant’s first degree felony-murder conviction.1 Citing our decision in People v. Morgan, 197 Ill. 2d 404 (2001), defendant contends his felony-murder conviction must be reversed because the charged predicate felony conduct arose from and was inherent in the act of murder itself. The…