720 ILCS 5/32-7 – Simulating Legal Process
This law makes it illegal to give out fake papers that look like real legal documents.
This statute says that a person breaks the law if they hand out or make something that looks like an official legal paper, like a lawsuit or a court order, when they know it’s not real. Doing this is a Class B misdemeanor, which is a type of crime that can lead to fines or jail time.
(a) A person commits the act of simulating legal process when they give or send out a document that they know falsely looks like or pretends to be a real legal paper used in civil or criminal cases.
(b) Sentence: This crime is a Class B misdemeanor, meaning it is a lower-level offense but can still result in penalties.
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