People v. Ellis

Defendant, Robert Ellis, was charged with false personation of a peace officer pursuant to section 32 — 5.1 of the Criminal Code of 1961. 720 ILCS 5/32 — 5.1 (West 1994). The State appeals from an order of the trial court granting defendant’s motion to dismiss the charge. The State contends that the trial court erred in finding that defendant could not be found guilty of violating the statute in question where he represented himself to be a police officer of a fictitious, rather than an actual, jurisdiction.

For the reasons that follow, we hold that the trial court erred in dismissing the…