IL · jury_instructions
Ill. Pattern Jury Instr. (Criminal) 13.44D
Issues In Retail Theft Of Shopping Cart--Value Of $150 Or Less--Value Exceeding $150
To sustain the charge of retail theft, the State must prove the following propositions:
First Proposition: That ____ was a merchant; and
Second Proposition: That the defendant removed a shopping cart from the premises of
the retail mercantile establishment without the consent of the merchant given at the time of such
removal; and
Third Proposition: That the defendant intended to deprive the merchant permanently of
the [(possession of) (use of) (benefit of)] that cart[; and
Fourth Proposition: That the full retail value of the shopping cart exceeded $150].
If you find from your consideration of all the evidence that each one of these propositions
has been proved beyond a reasonable doubt, you should find the defendant guilty.
If you find from your consideration of all the evidence that any one of these propositions
has not been proved beyond a reasonable doubt, you should find the defendant not guilty.
Provenance
- Source
- illinoiscourts.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- 2026-08-19
- Content hash
f6398d7b52083c34fd81cd3124c0fb63e09f696296e81e65077781432cf2f972
The link goes to the issuing authority’s own document — the one we read to produce this record. Where a source publishes whole titles rather than sections, your browser may need a moment to jump to the provision.
Unofficial copy of government-published law, reproduced from official sources with full provenance. Not an official publication; verify against official sources before relying on it in a filing. Records in the 'guidance' corpus, and only that corpus, are sub-regulatory (interpretive guidelines, survey procedures) and are not binding law. Validity bounds follow each jurisdiction's declared temporalBasis.