{ "id": 3261307, "name": "THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CLYDE E. BRADLEY, Defendant-Appellant", "name_abbreviation": "People v. Bradley", "decision_date": "1979-06-29", "docket_number": "No. 77-111", "first_page": "347", "last_page": "351", "citations": [ { "type": "official", "cite": "73 Ill. App. 3d 347" } ], "court": { "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.", "id": 8837, "name": "Illinois Appellate Court" }, "jurisdiction": { "id": 29, "name_long": "Illinois", "name": "Ill." }, "cites_to": [ { "cite": "329 N.E.2d 845", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "N.E.2d", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "29 Ill. App. 3d 113", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill. App. 3d", "case_ids": [ 2499535 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill-app-3d/29/0113-01" ] }, { "cite": "344 N.E.2d 567", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "N.E.2d", "pin_cites": [ { "page": "571-72" } ], "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "36 Ill. 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CLYDE E. BRADLEY, Defendant-Appellant." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE STENGEL\ndelivered the opinion of the court:\nDefendant was charged by indictment with pandering and robbery, and following a jury trial in the Circuit Court of Peoria County, he was convicted of robbery and sentenced to three to nine years in prison. A mistrial was declared on the pandering charge.\nThe State\u2019s main witness, Regina Boyer, testified that in mid-July, 1976, she entered a relationship with defendant whereby she agreed to move into defendant\u2019s house and to work for him as a prostitute. Boyer said she stayed at defendant\u2019s house three days, working each night as a prostitute in the streets of Peoria. She turned all of her earnings over to defendant who provided her with food and clothing and gave her *150 to purchase furniture for her room. Upon returning to defendant\u2019s house after her first night of work, Boyer told defendant she wished to get out of the prostitution business. Defendant responded to Boyer\u2019s request by throwing her on the floor, \u201csmacking\u201d her a couple of times and telling her she was \u201ca very lucky girl because he could have slashed [her] face up to where nobody would ever want [her] again or shoot [her] with heroin and throw [her] in the river * * The witness said that, because of fear of defendant, she continued living with him and working as a prostitute two more days. However, on the morning after her last night of work she left defendant\u2019s house and went to her parents\u2019 home, where she contacted the police.\nIn accordance with a police plan, Boyer took *150 in recorded bills and checked into a room at the Ramada Inn with undercover officer Ann Ruggles, who was posing as a prostitute friend of Boyer\u2019s from St. Louis. Boyer phoned defendant, told him she was working on her own as a prostitute, and invited him to come to the motel to discuss the situation. Upon arriving at the motel defendant phoned Boyer\u2019s room from the lobby and warned her she had better not be setting him up with the police because he had the motel surrounded with armed men and was coming up to the room with someone else. When Officer Ruggles opened the room door, defendant forced her up against a wall and quickly searched the premises. An argument ensued in which defendant stressed how powerful he was and demanded from Boyer the money she had made that evening as a prostitute because she was still his \u201clady\u201d (prostitute). Boyer refused to turn over the money and defendant said something to the effect, \u201cWell, okay, don\u2019t give me the money. I can easily pay a trick *100 to get you killed.\u201d Ruggles testified defendant also said the women should not be surprised if someone came up to them sometime with switchblades and cut off their heads. At some point, either just before or just after he grabbed Boyer\u2019s purse and seized the money, defendant ordered the women to \u201cDrop your guns. I\u2019ll kill you both.\u201d Neither woman had a gun, but they emptied their purses to prove that fact to defendant, who they feared was armed. Defendant had the recorded money in his hand when he was arrested just outside the motel room. He explained to the arresting officers that he was collecting rent from Boyer.\nOn appeal defendant raises several claims of error. However, three of these claims are grounded on the supreme court\u2019s holding in People v. White (1977), 67 Ill. 2d 107, 365 N.E.2d 337, that specific intent to permanently deprive another person of his property is a necessary element of the offense of robbery. After the briefs were filed in this case the supreme court overruled its decision in White by holding that specific intent to deprive is not a required element of robbery. (People v. Banks (1979), 75 Ill. 2d 383, 388 N.E.2d 1244.) In light of the Banks decision, defendant\u2019s claims of error based on White are clearly without merit and no further discussion of them is required.\nAt trial defendant raised the defense of entrapment, claiming he was induced by the police to commit the offense of robbery. On appeal defendant contends the State\u2019s evidence was insufficient to rebut that defense. The jury was instructed on entrapment, but the State argued the defense was unavailable to defendant because he denied committing the offense charged. Defendant contended in the trial court and contends again on appeal that he did not take the money from Regina Boyer by use of force or threats of force as required under our robbery statute.\nIt is a well-established rule in Illinois that a criminal defendant is entitled to rely on the defense of entrapment only if he admits committing the acts constituting the offense with which he is charged. (People v. Fleming (1971), 50 Ill. 2d 141, 277 N.E.2d 872; People v. Nahas (1973), 9 Ill. App. 3d 570, 292 N.E.2d 466.) Defendant cites People v. Jensen (1976), 37 Ill. App. 3d 1010, 347 N.E.2d 371, where the court held that a defendant charged with driving under a suspended license could invoke the defense of entrapment despite his claim that the road on which he was driving was not a \u201chighway\u201d as defined in the application statute. Another case relied upon by defendant is People v. Jones (1966), 73 Ill. App. 2d 55, 219 N.E.2d 12, where the defendant admitted possessing and delivering illicit drugs, but claimed she lacked the knowledge or intent required to sustain conviction under the law. Despite her claim of innocence, defendant Jones was allowed to raise the defense of entrapment.\nHowever, Jensen and Jones are distinguishable from the case at bar, for in each of those cases the defendant admitted committing all of the acts constituting the offense charged and disputed only the legal definition of \u201chighway\u201d in one case and the presence of scienter in the other. (Jensen; Jones.) There was no factual dispute as to the acts constituting the crime in either of the cited cases. In the instant case, although defendant admitted taking the money from Boyer, he denied the acts of using or threatening to use force to do so. Use of force or threat by the defendant is a requisite element of the offense of robbery which must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt to sustain a conviction and which must be admitted by a defendant if he wishes to rely on the defense of entrapment. Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 38, par. 18\u20141(a); People v. Patton (1978), 60 Ill. App. 3d 456, 376 N.E.2d 1099.\n\u201cWe have repeatedly held the defense of entrapment incompatible with denial of the commission of the acts constituting the offense. (People v. Johnson, 24 Ill. 2d 195; People v. Van Scoyk, 20 Ill. 2d 232). Since defendant relied\" below upon a denial that he performed the alleged acts, he cannot here claim he was induced or lured into performing them under circumstances amounting to entrapment.\u201d People v. Realmo (1963), 28 Ill. 2d 510, 512, 192 N.E.2d 918.\nDefendant cites United States v. Demma (9th Cir. 1975), 523 F.2d 981, where the court adopted the minority rule holding that a defendant may assert entrapment without being required to concede he committed the crime alleged or any of its elements. However, the Demma rule has been expressly rejected by the courts of this State and it is inconsistent with the decisions of our supreme court which we are obligated to follow.\n\u201cAlthough a few courts have held that a defendant may be allowed to assert an entrapment defense without being required to concede that he committed the crime charged or any of its elements (see, for example, United States v. Demma, 9 Cir., 523 F.2d 981; People v. Perez, 62 Cal. 2d 869, 44 Cal. Rptr. 326, 401 P.2d 934), the generally accepted rule in Illinois and other jurisdictions is that the defense of entrapment is only available to a defendant who admits committing the acts which constitute the crime for which he is claiming entrapment.\u201d (People v. Gulley (1976), 36 Ill. App. 3d 577, 581, 344 N.E.2d 567, 571-72.)\nWe therefore hold that defendant was precluded from raising the defense of entrapment because of his failure to admit the acts constituting the offense of robbery.\nDefendant also claims the prosecuting attorney misstated the law of entrapment in his closing argument to the jury by indicating that the defense of entrapment is available to a defendant only if he admits committing the crime with which he was charged. As noted above, a more precise statement of the law would be that a defendant is required to admit committing the acts which constitute the offense charged. Some defendants have been allowed to raise the defense of entrapment while still maintaining their innocence. (Jones; Jensen.) However, we have held that the defendant in this case was precluded from claiming the defense of entrapment; therefore he clearly could not have been prejudiced by the prosecutor\u2019s imprecise statement of the law.\nDefendant next contends the evidence was insufficient to prove he took the money from Regina Boyer by the use or threat of force as required for conviction under our robbery statute. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 38, par. 18\u20141(a).) We think the evidence was sufficient to sustain the jury\u2019s verdict. The evidence indicated defendant had previously beaten the victim when she suggested quitting the prostitute profession. Upon arriving at the motel he warned her that he had the place surrounded with armed men and was bringing someone else to the room with him. While in the room defendant forced Officer Ruggles against a wall, and repeatedly demanded the money from Boyer, telling both women he could pay a \u201ctrick\u201d $100 to have them killed. Boyer testified she was \u201cfrightened to death of the man\u201d and when Officer Ruggles, in fear of her safety, attempted to push the alarm for help, defendant said, \u201cDrop your guns, I\u2019ll kill you both.\u201d Regina Boyer testified she did not try to stop defendant from taking the money because she was afraid of him. Under the circumstances of this case, we cannot say that Boyer\u2019s fear of imminent harm was unreasonable, nor can we conclude that the jury\u2019s verdict was improper.\nDefendant\u2019s final contention is that the trial court erred in denying his pretrial motion to sever the robbery and pandering charges for purposes of trial. Both sides agree the decision whether or not to sever charges for trial is within the discretion of the trial court and is to be made on the basis of whether the charges are part of the same comprehensive transaction. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 38, par. 111\u20144(a); People v. York (1975), 29 Ill. App. 3d 113, 329 N.E.2d 845.) The petitions and arguments on defendant\u2019s motion to sever in the instant case indicated that defendant and Boyer had entered a panderer-prostitute relationship and that defendant sought the money Boyer had supposedly earned on her own under a claim that the relationship still continued and that Boyer was still his \u201clady.\u201d Considering this information, we cannot say that the pandering and robbery charges were not part of the same comprehensive transaction. The trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying defendant\u2019s motion for severance.\nFor the foregoing reasons, the judgment of the Circuit Court of Peoria County is affirmed.\nAffirmed.\nSCOTT and BARRY, JJ., concur.", "type": "majority", "author": "Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE STENGEL" } ], "attorneys": [ "Robert Agostinelli and G. Joseph Weller, both of State Appellate Defender\u2019s Office, of Ottawa, for appellant.", "Michael M. Mihm, State\u2019s Attorney, of Peoria (John X. Breslin and Joseph A. Mueller, both of State\u2019s Attorneys Appellate Service Commission, of counsel), for the People." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CLYDE E. BRADLEY, Defendant-Appellant.\nThird District\nNo. 77-111\nOpinion filed June 29, 1979.\nRehearing denied July 30, 1979.\nRobert Agostinelli and G. Joseph Weller, both of State Appellate Defender\u2019s Office, of Ottawa, for appellant.\nMichael M. Mihm, State\u2019s Attorney, of Peoria (John X. Breslin and Joseph A. Mueller, both of State\u2019s Attorneys Appellate Service Commission, of counsel), for the People." }, "file_name": "0347-01", "first_page_order": 369, "last_page_order": 373 }