SPRINGFIELD, Ill., April 27 -- The Illinois Courts Office issued the following opinion on March 27:
1. Following a bench trial, defendant Ashontis Hatcher was found guilty of four counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon (AUUW) and sentenced to one year in prison. On appeal, defendant contends that (1) the trial court should have granted his motion to quash his arrest and suppress evidence, (2) his waiver of his right to a jury trial was invalid, (3) the subsections of the AUUW statute under which he was convicted violate the second amendment to the United States Constitution, and (4) if we affirm his AUUW convictions, we should vacate all but one pursuant to the one-act, one-crime rule. For the following reasons, we affirm the denial...