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Ill. Pattern Jury Instr. (Criminal) 19.08

Issues In Disorderly Conduct

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To sustain the charge of disorderly conduct , the State must prove the following

proposition[s]:

[1] That the defendant knowingly performed an act in such an unreasonable manner as to

alarm or disturb another and provoke a breach of the peace.

[or]

[2] First Proposition: That the defendant knowingly transmitted to a fire department of

any city, town, village, or fire protection district a false alarm of a fire; and

Second Proposition: That the defendant did so knowing that there was no reasonable

ground for believing that a fire existed.

[or]

[3] First Proposition: That the defendant knowingly transmitted to another a false alarm

that a bomb or another explosive was concealed in such a place that its explosion would

endanger human life; and

Second Proposition: That t he defendant did so knowing that there was no reasonable

ground for believing that a bomb or explosive was concealed in that place.

[or]

[4] First Proposition: That the defendant knowingly transmitted to a [(peace officer)

(public officer) (public employee)] a report that an offense had been committed; and

Second Proposition: That the defendant did so knowing that there was no reasonable

ground for believing that such an offense had been committed.

[or]

[5] That the defendant knowingly entered upon the property of another and, for a lewd or

unlawful purpose, deliberately looked into a dwelling on the property through any window or

other opening in it.

[or]

[6] That the defendant, while acting as a collection agency or as an employee of such

collection agency, and while attempting to collect an alleged debt, knowingly made a telephone

call to an alleged debtor which was designed to harass, annoy, or intimidate the alleged debtor.

[or]

[7] That that defendant knowingly transmitted a false report to the Department of

Children and Family Services that ____.

[or]

[8] That the defendant knowingly transmitted a false report to the Department of Public

Health that ____.

[or]

[9] That the defendant knowing transmitted to a [(police department) (fire department of

any municipality or fire protection district) (privately owned and operated ambulance service)] a

false request for an [(ambulance) (emergency medical technician -ambulance) (emergency

medical technician-paramedic)] knowing there was no reasonable ground for believing that such

assistance is required.

[or]

[10] That the defendant knowingly transmitted a false report to the Department of Aging

of the State of Illinois that ____.

If you find from your considera tion of all the evidence that [(each one of these

propositions) (this proposition)] 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) (this proposition)] has not been proved beyond a reasonable doubt, you should

find the defendant not guilty.

Provenance

Source
illinoiscourts.gov
Retrieved
2026-09-10
Edition
2026-09-10
Content hash
09fe09344c7b51bfe1a8ab9c501c8c4bed430563a8c53e822f3a69398a403de1
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