The People of the State of Illinois, Appellant v. Maurice A. Artis, Appellee

Summary

The court declined to abandon Illinois's one-act, one-crime doctrine, holding that multiple convictions based on the same physical act remain improper even though parole has been abolished. Because the two aggravated criminal sexual assault convictions were based on the same physical act and neither could be identified as more serious, the State could not elect which conviction would survive; the matter had to be remanded for that determination and resentencing. The court also held that the State forfeited its alternative argument that the convictions were based on different acts.