Illinois Supreme Court

People v. Devine

December 29, 2023237 N.E.3d 429

Summary

The Illinois Supreme Court affirmed the appellate court’s judgment reducing the defendant’s conviction to disorderly conduct. The Court held that the victim was not identifiable from the images and that, under the plain meaning of “disseminate,” sending the images to oneself constitutes dissemination, but the lack of identifiability precludes conviction under the nonconsensual dissemination statute.