Illinois is set to become the first state in the nation to eliminate cash bail after the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a landmark criminal justice reform law did not violate the state’s constitution.
The opinion was released more than six months after the Pretrial Fairness Act was halted by the Justices just hours before it was to go into effect Jan. 1 in response to legal challenges. The high court said the law should now go into effect in September.
In its 5-2 ruling, the court said the state’s constitution “does not mandate that monetary bail is the only means to ensure criminal defendants appear for trials or the only means to protect the public. Our constitution creates a balance between the individual rights of defendants and the individual rights of crime victims. The Act’s pretrial release provisions set forth procedures commensurate with that balance.”
The majority rejected claims that the Legislature had overstepped its authority by eliminating bail through the Act, writing that “the legislature has long regulated the bail system.”
The court’s only two Republican Justices dissented, saying “the legislature’s abolishment of monetary bail is in direct violation of the plain language of our constitution’s bill of rights and, more specifically, the vested rights of crime victims. ... This court has an absolute obligation to declare the pretrial release provisions of the Act to be invalid and unenforceable no matter how beneficial the abolishment of monetary bail may be.”
The bail system overhaul was one of the most controversial provisions of the widely scrutinized SAFE-T Act, a major bill that mandated wide-ranging reforms to policing, court proceedings and victims’ rights in the state.
The court’s ruling stems from a flurry of lawsuits last year brought by roughly 60 sheriffs and state’s attorneys who argued that eliminating cash bail would reduce public safety, put law enforcement in harm’s way and violate the state’s constitution.
In December, Kankakee County Chief Judge Thomas Cunnington agreed with the groups and ruled the cash bail provision unconstitutional, though his ruling would have only applied to counties that had sued.
An appeal by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul sent the matter to the state Supreme Court, and the Justices ordered that the entire Pretrial Fairness Act wouldn’t go into effect until further notice “in order to maintain consistent pretrial procedures throughout Illinois.”
In the ruling Tuesday, Chief Judge Mary Jane Theis said Cunnington’s decision ignored the plain language of the bail clause in the state’s constitution, which never included the term “monetary, so does not cement the practice of monetary bail, however long-standing and prevalent across Illinois, into our constitution.”
Raoul released a statement Tuesday morning saying “someone’s experience with the criminal justice system should not vary based on their income level. The SAFE-T Act was intended to address pervasive inequalities in the criminal justice system, in particular the fact that individuals who are awaiting criminal trials — who have not been convicted of a crime and are presumed innocent — may spend extended periods of time incarcerated because they cannot afford to pay cash bail.”
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, who supported the bail reform, said the ruling “is a monumental milestone toward achieving equal justice for all in Cook County and Illinois. ... Ending cash bail is in line with our values and is a critical step toward economic and racial justice in Cook County and Illinois.”
But McHenry County State’s Attorney Patrick Kenneally, an opponent of the bail act, called the ruling “a sad reflection of state of ideological capture in our three branches of government. ... We at the state’s attorney’s office will continue to do everything within our power to ensure that dangerous offenders remain behind bars pre-trial or that other measures, such as electronic monitoring, are in put in place to minimize risk.”
Despite a two-year ramp-up before bail reform was to go into effect, opponents waited until late last year to mount a serious effort to overturn the law, as well as a political pressure campaign before last year’s statewide elections.
In the weeks before the election, opponents derided the SAFE-T Act as a “purge law” and claimed it would make the state — with a particular focus on Chicago — less safe by releasing more violent criminals to prey on the public.
Supporters of the Pretrial Fairness Act said its provisions would simply remove cash bail as a condition that could be set by a judge when considering whether someone was likely to return to court for their hearings or posed a danger to the public.
Studies of jurisdictions that have nearly eliminated cash bail have shown no significant increase in crime generally, nor by defendants released while awaiting trial. In some cases, defendants were more likely to return to court.
The elimination of cash bail does not mean people charged with crimes cannot be held in custody pending trial.
Under the act, the courts will continue to hold detention hearings for people accused of serious crimes to determine whether someone poses a safety risk if released and whether someone is likely to show up for their hearings — the same considerations that now often determine cash bail.
People charged with misdemeanors and other minor offenses will be released without bail or pretrial conditions. In more serious cases that meet standards where a person can be held in custody, prosecutors will be required to request a person be detained and make arguments on public safety and the risk of flight.
In cases where prosecutors seek to hold a person in custody, the defendant’s attorneys will be given more time to prepare for the hearing. The decision on whether a person should continue to be held in custody pretrial can also be revisited by the court at future hearings.
Cook County had planned to move forward with bail reform on Jan. 1 until the Justices halted its implementation. “I feel very confident that we will be ready to go in 60 days,” Pretrial Division Presiding Judge Marubio said Tuesday.
Until Sept. 18, judges will continue to set bail in cases in Cook County, just as they had been doing up until Dec. 31, Marubio said.
DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin, the lone Republican appointee on a state Senate panel that recommended revisions to the bail reforms in the SAFE-T Act last fall, said changes adopted in the December veto session largely addressed “glaring deficiencies” and expanded judges’ discretion to detain defendants who might pose a danger to the public if released.
Berlin did not join the lawsuit that led to Supreme Court case because of the potential conflict with his role on the panel.
“At this point, I would say (the public) shouldn’t be panicked,” Berlin told the Sun-Times. “With the amendment (passed in December) I am confident that violent criminals are going to be detained.”
Berlin said he expected an influx of defendants seeking hearings when the law takes effect, and that his office will petition judges to hold any person his office deems a threat to public safety.
He also noted that even multimillion-dollar bail amounts are not a guarantee of safety. “I have seen people put up $200,000 and walk out of jail on a $2 million bond,” he said.
Berlin said he and his fellow state’s attorneys planned a conference call Tuesday afternoon to discuss options, but personally he felt that another lawsuit was not likely. “I think we need to move forward with the General Assembly and use the legislative process,” he said. “At this point, I’m not sure legally what else there is to do.”
Berlin said he would advocate for changes that would make the Act resemble bail statutes in New Jersey, which largely did away with cash bail in 2017. New Jersey’s laws allow judges to set a cash bail when prosecutors show “clear and convincing evidence” people are likely to flee, threaten or intimidate others if set free before trial, or otherwise pose a threat to safety.
Harold Krent, a professor at IIT-Kent Law School who has studied the separation of powers, agreed there likely is no path for further challenges in the courts.
“There is no traditional injury they can point to that is going to get them through the doors of federal court,” he said. “This is a case where a state law was found constitutional under the state constitution. I’m not sure what their federal claim would be.”
The bail reforms were just one part of the SAFE-T Act, some of which have already taken effect. Other measures include requiring all police departments to equip officers with body-worn cameras by 2025, expanding services for victims of crimes and changing how people who are incarcerated are counted for redistricting maps.
Many Republican candidates made the SAFE-T Act a focus of law-and-order campaigning last year, but Democrats held off most challengers in what was expected to be a bruising midterm election for the party across the country and even expanded their majority on the state Supreme Court.
The elections of Justices Elizabeth Rochford and Mary Kay O’Brien were believed to be significant to preserving Illinois’ strong abortion protections, as well as the future of the SAFE-T Act. Both Justices sided with the majority of the court.
Justices Lisa Holder White and David Overstreet, the high court’s only Republicans, joined in the dissent.
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Teen Choice Awards 2018: The Complete Winners List
TBH, I don’t really understand the Teen Choice Awards. The winners? Not teens. The voters? They don’t have to be teens either — anyone with Internet access can cast a ballot. The dress code? Wear whatever you want. The trophy? A colourfully patterned surf board.
Yeah, it’s a little confusing — but the practical prize and youthful categories are far more interesting than what they’re doing over at the Oscars. Forget “Best Lead Actress in a Motion Picture”: the Teen Choice Awards recognizes the “Best Action Movie Actress,” the “Best Sci-Fi Movie Actress,” the “Best Fantasy Movie Actress,” the “Best Comedy Movie Actress” the “Best Drama Movie Actress” and the “Best Summer Actress.” (There’s a whole other category for actresses on television!) And, if you don’t make it on stage to collect one of these awards, you might have a shot at “Choice Hissy Fit” and “Choice Snapchatter.”
This year’s Teen Choice Awards honoured the best in film, television, music, sports, fashion, comedy and the internet based on more than 150 million votes cast on Twitter and FOX.com. Here’s the full list of winners from last night’s event. (Spoiler: Riverdale won pretty much everything.)
Movies:
Choice Action Movie
WINNER: “Avengers: Infinity War”
“Justice League”
“Maze Runner: The Death Cure”
“Pacific Rim: Uprising”
“Tomb Raider”
Choice Action Movie Actor
WINNER: Robert Downey Jr. – “Avengers: Infinity War”
Chris Evans – “Avengers: Infinity War”
Dylan O’Brien – “Maze Runner: The Death Cure”
Henry Cavill – “Justice League”
John Boyega – “Pacific Rim: Uprising”
Tom Holland – “Avengers: Infinity War”
Choice Action Movie Actress
WINNER: Scarlett Johansson – “Avengers: Infinity War”
Alicia Vikander – “Tomb Raider”
Amy Adams – “Justice League”
Elizabeth Olsen – “Avengers: Infinity War”
Gal Gadot – “Justice League”
Zoe Saldana – “Avengers: Infinity War”
Choice Sci-Fi Movie
WINNER: “Black Panther”
“Blade Runner 2049”
“Rampage”
“Ready Player One”
“Thor: Ragnarok”
Choice Sci-Fi Movie Actor
WINNER: Chris Hemsworth – “Thor: Ragnarok”
Chadwick Boseman – “Black Panther”
Dwayne Johnson – “Rampage”
Mark Ruffalo – “Thor: Ragnarok”
Ryan Gosling – “Blade Runner 2049”
Tye Sheridan – “Ready Player One”
Choice Sci-Fi Movie Actress
WINNER: Letitia Wright – “Black Panther”
Danai Gurira – “Black Panther”
Lupita Nyong’o – “Black Panther”
Naomie Harris – “Rampage”
Olivia Cooke – “Ready Player One”
Tessa Thompson – “Thor: Ragnarok”
Choice Fantasy Movie
WINNER: “Coco”
“A Wrinkle in Time”
“Peter Rabbit”
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi”
Choice Fantasy Movie Actor
WINNER: Anthony Gonzalez – “Coco”
Gael García Bernal – “Coco”
James Corden – “Peter Rabbit”
John Boyega – “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”
Mark Hamill – “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”
Oscar Isaac – “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”
Choice Fantasy Movie Actress
WINNER: Carrie Fisher – “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”
Daisy Ridley – “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”
Mindy Kaling – “A Wrinkle in Time”
Oprah Winfrey – “A Wrinkle in Time”
Reese Witherspoon – “A Wrinkle in Time”
Storm Reid – “A Wrinkle in Time”
Choice Drama Movie
WINNER: “The Greatest Showman”
“A Quiet Place”
“Midnight Sun”
“Murder on the Orient Express”
“Truth or Dare”
“Wonder”
Choice Drama Movie Actor
WINNER: Zac Efron – “The Greatest Showman”
Hugh Jackman – “The Greatest Showman”
Jacob Tremblay – “Wonder”
Leslie Odom Jr. – “Murder on the Orient Express”
Patrick Schwarzenegger – “Midnight Sun”
Timothée Chalamet – “Lady Bird”
Choice Drama Movie Actress
WINNER: Zendaya – “The Greatest Showman”
Bella Thorne – “Midnight Sun”
Daisy Ridley – “Murder on the Orient Express”
Julia Roberts – “Wonder”
Lucy Hale – “Truth or Dare”
Saoirse Ronan – “Lady Bird”
Choice Comedy Movie
WINNER: “Love, Simon”
“Daddy’s Home 2”
“I Feel Pretty”
“Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle”
“Overboard”
“Pitch Perfect 3”
Choice Comedy Movie Actor
WINNER: Dwayne Johnson – “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle”
Eugenio Derbez – “Overboard”
Jack Black – “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle”
Kevin Hart – “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle”
Mark Wahlberg – “Daddy’s Home 2”
Will Ferrell – “Daddy’s Home 2”
Choice Comedy Movie Actress
WINNER: Anna Kendrick – “Pitch Perfect 3”
Amy Schumer – “I Feel Pretty”
Anna Faris – “Overboard”
Hailee Steinfeld – “Pitch Perfect 3”
Karen Gillan – “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle”
Rebel Wilson – “Pitch Perfect 3”
Choice Movie Villain
WINNER: Michael B. Jordan – “Black Panther”
Cate Blanchett – “Thor: Ragnarok”
Josh Brolin – “Avengers: Infinity War”
Adam Driver – “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”
Aidan Gillen – “Maze Runner: The Death Cure”
Bill Skarsgård – “It”
Choice Breakout Movie Star
WINNER: Nick Robinson – “Love, Simon”
Olivia Cooke – “Ready Player One”
Sophia Lillis – “It”
Keala Settle – “The Greatest Showman”
Kelly Marie Tran – “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”
Letitia Wright – “Black Panther”
Choice Summer Movie
WINNER: “Incredibles 2”
“Adrift”
“Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”
“Life of the Party”
“Ocean’s 8”
“Solo: A Star Wars Story”
Choice Summer Movie Actor
WINNER: Chris Pratt – “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”
Sam Claflin – “Adrift”
Julian Dennison – “Deadpool 2”
Alden Ehrenreich – “Solo: A Star Wars Story”
Donald Glover – “Solo: A Star Wars Story”
Ryan Reynolds – “Deadpool 2”
Choice Summer Movie Actress
WINNER: Bryce Dallas Howard – “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”
Zazie Beetz – “Deadpool 2”
Sandra Bullock – “Ocean’s 8”
Emilia Clarke – “Solo: A Star Wars Story”
Melissa McCarthy – “Life of the Party”
Shailene Woodley – “Adrift”
Choice Movie Ship
WINNER: Zac Efron & Zendaya – “The Greatest Showman”
Chadwick Boseman & Lupita Nyong’o – “Black Panther”
Sophia Lillis & Jeremy Ray Taylor – “It”
Dylan O’Brien & Kaya Scodelario – “Maze Runner: The Death Cure”
Nick Robinson & Keiynan Lonsdale – “Love, Simon”
Bella Thorne & Patrick Schwarzenegger – “Midnight Sun”
Television:
Choice Drama TV Show
WINNER: “Riverdale”
“Empire”
“Famous in Love”
“Star”
“The Fosters”
“This is Us”
Choice Drama TV Actor
WINNER: Cole Sprouse – “Riverdale”
Freddie Highmore – “The Good Doctor”
Jesse Williams – “Grey’s Anatomy”
Jussie Smollett – “Empire”
K.J. Apa – “Riverdale”
Sterling K. Brown – “This Is Us”
Choice Drama TV Actress
WINNER: Lili Reinhart – “Riverdale”
Bella Thorne – “Famous in Love”
Camila Mendes – “Riverdale”
Chrissy Metz – “This Is Us”
Maia Mitchell – “The Fosters”
Ryan Destiny – “Star”
Choice Comedy TV Show
WINNER: “The Big Bang Theory”
“Black-ish”
“Fuller House”
“Jane the Virgin”
“Modern Family”
“The Good Place”
Choice Comedy TV Actor
WINNER: Jaime Camil – “Jane the Virgin”
Andy Samberg – “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”
Anthony Anderson – “Black-ish”
Elias Harger – “Fuller House”
Hudson Yang – “Fresh Off the Boat”
Rico Rodriguez – “Modern Family”
Choice Comedy TV Actress
WINNER: Gina Rodriguez – “Jane the Virgin”
America Ferrera – “Superstore”
Candace Cameron Bure – “Fuller House”
Kristen Bell – “The Good Place”
Sarah Hyland – “Modern Family”
Yara Shahidi – “Black-ish,” “Grown-ish”
Choice Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Actor
WINNER: Matthew Daddario – “Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments”
Bob Morley – “The 100”
Dominic Sherwood – “Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments”
Finn Wolfhard – “Stranger Things”
Gaten Matarazzo – “Stranger Things”
Joseph Morgan – “The Originals”
Choice Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Actress
WINNER: Millie Bobby Brown – “Stranger Things”
Eliza Taylor – “The 100”
Emeraude Toubia – “Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments”
Katherine McNamara – “Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments”
Lana Parrilla – “Once Upon a Time”
Rose McIver – “iZombie”
Choice Action TV Show
WINNER: “The Flash”
“Arrow”
“Gotham”
“Lethal Weapon”
“Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”
“Supergirl”
Choice Action TV Actor
WINNER: Grant Gustin – “The Flash”
Chris Wood – “Supergirl”
Damon Wayans – “Lethal Weapon”
David Mazouz – “Gotham”
Lucas Till – “MacGyver”
Stephen Amell – “Arrow”
Choice Action TV Actress
WINNER: Melissa Benoist – “Supergirl”
Caity Lotz – “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow”
Candice Patton – “The Flash”
Chloe Bennet – “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”
Danielle Panabaker – “The Flash”
Emily Bett Rickards – “Arrow”
Choice Animated TV Show
WINNER: “Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir”
“Bob’s Burgers”
“Family Guy”
“Rick and Morty”
“Steven Universe”
“The Simpsons”
Choice Reality TV Show
WINNER: “Keeping Up with the Kardashians”
“Lip Sync Battle”
“MasterChef Junior”
“The Four: Battle for Stardom”
“The Voice”
“Total Divas”
Choice Throwback TV Show
WINNER: “Friends”
“Gossip Girl”
“One Tree Hill”
“That ’70s Show”
“The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”
Choice TV Personality
WINNER: Chrissy Teigen – “Lip Sync Battle”
Derek Hough – “World of Dance”
DJ Khaled – “The Four: Battle for Stardom”
Hailey Baldwin – “Drop the Mic”
Kelly Clarkson – “The Voice”
Meghan Trainor – “The Four: Battle for Stardom”
Choice TV Villain
WINNER: Mark Consuelos –”Riverdale”
Anna Hopkins –”Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments”
Cameron Monaghan –”Gotham”
Gabrielle Anwar –”Once Upon a Time”
Mind Flayer –”Stranger Things”
Odette Annable –”Supergirl
Choice TV Ship
WINNER: Cole Sprouse & Lili Reinhart – “Riverdale”
Grant Gustin & Candice Patton – “The Flash”
K.J. Apa & Camila Mendes –”Riverdale”
Matthew Daddario & Harry Shum Jr. –”Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments”
Millie Bobby Brown & Finn Wolfhard –”Stranger Things”
Stephen Amell & Emily Bett Rickards –”Arrow”
Choice Summer TV Show
WINNER: “So You Think You Can Dance”
“Beat Shazam”
“Cobra Kai”
“Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger”
“The Bold Type”
“Total Bellas”
Choice Summer TV Star
WINNER: Olivia Holt – Marvel’s “Cloak & Dagger”
Aisha Dee – “The Bold Type”
Aubrey Joseph – Marvel’s “Cloak & Dagger”
Katie Stevens – “The Bold Type”
Meghann Fahy – “The Bold Type”
Xolo Maridueña – “Cobra Kai”
Movies & TV:
Choice Liplock
WINNER: Cole Sprouse & Lili Reinhart –”Riverdale”
Chadwick Boseman & Lupita Nyong’o – “Black Panther”
Chris Pratt & Zoe Saldana – Avengers:”Infinity War”
Gina Rodriguez & Justin Baldoni –”Jane the Virgin”
Millie Bobby Brown & Finn Wolfhard –”Stranger Things”
Zac Efron & Zendaya –”The Greatest Showman”
Choice Hissy Fit
WINNER: Madelaine Petsch –”Riverdale”
Adam Driver –”Star Wars: The Last Jedi”
Jack Black –”Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle”
Joe Keery –”Stranger Things”
Kevin Hart –”Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle”
Mark Ruffalo –”Avengers: Infinity War”
Choice Scene Stealer
WINNER: Vanessa Morgan –”Riverdale”
Charlie Heaton –”Stranger Things”
Katie McGrath –”Supergirl”
Nick Jonas –”Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle”
Taika Waititi –”Thor: Ragnarok”
Tom Hiddleston –”Thor: Ragnarok”
Music:
Choice Male Artist
WINNER: Louis Tomlinson
Bruno Mars
Drake
Ed Sheeran
Niall Horan
Shawn Mendes
Choice Female Artist
WINNER: Camila Cabello
Ariana Grande
Cardi B
Demi Lovato
Dua Lipa
Taylor Swift
Choice Music Group
WINNER: 5 Seconds of Summer
Fifth Harmony
Florida Georgia Line
Maroon 5
Migos
Why Don’t We
Choice Country Artist
WINNER: Carrie Underwood
Kane Brown
Kelsea Ballerini
Maren Morris
Thomas Rhett
Choice R&B/Hip-Hop Artist
WINNER: Cardi B
Childish Gambino
Drake
Khalid
Nicki Minaj
Post Malone
Choice Rock Artist
WINNER: Imagine Dragons
Panic! At the Disco
Paramore
Portugal. The Man
twenty one pilots
X Ambassadors
Choice Breakout Artist
WINNER: Khalid
Lauv
Logic
Marshmello
SZA
Choice International Artist
WINNER: BTS
Black Pink
CNCO
Exo
Got7
Super Junior
Choice Song: Female Artist
WINNER: Camila Cabello (feat. Young Thug) – “Havana”
Ariana Grande – “No Tears Left To Cry”
Demi Lovato – “Sorry Not Sorry”
Dua Lipa – “New Rules”
Halsey – “Bad at Love”
Taylor Swift – “Look What You Made Me Do”
Choice Song: Male Artist
WINNER: Ed Sheeran – “Perfect”
Charlie Puth – “Attention”
Childish Gambino – “This Is America”
Drake – “God’s Plan”
Justin Timberlake (feat. Chris Stapleton) – “Say Something”
Kendrick Lamar (feat. Zacari) – “Love.”
Choice Song: Group
WINNER: 5 Seconds of Summer – “Youngblood”
Imagine Dragons – “Whatever It Takes”
Maroon 5 – “Wait”
Panic! At the Disco – “Say Amen (Saturday Night)”
Portugal. The Man – “Feel It Still”
Why Don’t We – “Trust Fund Baby”
Choice Collaboration
WINNER: Zac Efron & Zendaya – “Rewrite the Stars” (“The Greatest Showman” soundtrack)
Bebe Rexha (feat. Florida Georgia Line) – “Meant to Be”
Bruno Mars (feat. Cardi B) – “Finesse (Remix)”
Taylor Swift (feat. Ed Sheeran & Future) – “End Game”
The Weeknd & Kendrick Lamar – “Pray for Me” (“Black Panther” soundtrack)
Zedd, Maren Morris & Grey – “The Middle”
Choice Pop Song
WINNER: “In My Blood” – Shawn Mendes
“Delicate” – Taylor Swift
“Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” – Backstreet Boys
“No Excuses” – Meghan Trainor
“No Tears Left to Cry” – Ariana Grande
“This Is Me” – Keala Settle
Choice Summer Song
WINNER: “Back to You” – Selena Gomez
“Familiar” – Liam Payne & J Balvin
“Girls Like You” – Maroon 5 feat. Cardi B
“Nice for What” – Drake
“One Kiss” – Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa
“Youngblood” – 5 Seconds of Summer
Choice Summer Female Artist
WINNER: Camila Cabello
Cardi B
Selena Gomez
Ariana Grande
Halsey
Meghan Trainor
Choice Summer Male Artist
WINNER: Shawn Mendes
Kane Brown
Niall Horan
Liam Payne
Charlie Puth
Zayn
Choice Summer Group
WINNER: 5 Seconds of Summer
The Chainsmokers
Dan + Shay
Imagine Dragons
Maroon 5
Panic! at the Disco
Choice Summer Tour
WINNER: Harry Styles – Harry Styles: Live on Tour
Niall Horan – Flicker World Tour
Jay Z & Beyoncé – On the Run II Tour
Charlie Puth – Voicenotes Tour
Taylor Swift – Reputation Stadium Tour
Top Dawg Entertainment – The Championship Tour
Internet:
Choice Female Web Star
WINNER: Liza Koshy
Merrell Twins
Bethany Mota
Lele Pons
Lilly Singh
Choice Male Web Star
WINNER: The Dolan Twins
Cameron Dallas
Joey Graceffa
Ryan Higa
Collins Key
Tyler Oakley
Choice Twitter
WINNER: Anna Kendrick
Mark Hamill
Mindy Kaling
Kumail Nanjiani
Ryan Reynolds
Chrissy Teigen
Choice Instagrammer
WINNER: Selena Gomez
Lucy Hale
Dwayne Johnson
John Mayer
Will Smith
Justin Timberlake
Choice Snapchatter
WINNER: Ariana Grande
Ethan Dolan
Grayson Dolan
Kendall Jenner
Demi Lovato
Meghan Trainor
Choice YouTuber
WINNER: Liza Koshy
DanTDM
The Dolan Twins
Merrell Twins
Lele Pons
Lilly Singh
Other:
Choice Style Icon
WINNER: Harry Styles
Chadwick Boseman
Blake Lively
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
Migos
Zendaya
Choice Female Hottie
WINNER: Lauren Jauregui
Hailey Baldwin
Selena Gomez
Olivia Holt
Kendall Jenner
Yara Shahidi
Choice Male Hottie
WINNER: Cole Sprouse
Chadwick Boseman
Zac Efron
Grant Gustin
Chris Hemsworth
Shawn Mendes
Choice Comedian
WINNER: The Dolan Twins
Ellen DeGeneres
James Corden
Jimmy Fallon
Kevin Hart
Lilly Singh
Choice Male Athlete
WINNER: LeBron James
Adam Rippon
J.J. Watt
Red Gerard
Shaun White
Stephen Curry
Choice Female Athlete
WINNER: Serena Williams
Chloe Kim
Lindsey Vonn
Mikaela Shiffrin
Mirai Nagasu
U.S. Olympic Women’s Ice Hockey Team
Choice Dancer
WINNER: Maddie Ziegler
Cheryl Burke
Jenna Dewan
Derek Hough
Les Twins
tWitch
Choice Video Game
WINNER: “Fortnite”
“Fire Emblem Heroes”
“The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild”
“Overwatch”
“PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds”
“Super Mario Odyssey”
Choice Model
WINNER: Gigi Hadid
Adwoa Aboah
Romeo Beckham
Kaia Gerber
Bella Hadid
Jaden Smith
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Teen Choice Awards 2018: See the full list of winners
Fans have voted online and hashtagged their favorite stars from film, TV, music, and the web all over social media in anticipation of the 2018 Teen Choice Awards, which was broadcast live on Sunday night from The Forum in Los Angeles.
Nick Cannon hosted the show with help from YouTube sensation Lele Pons. Performers included Khalid, Meghan Trainor, Lauv, Evvie McKinney, and Bebe Rexha, while appearances were made by the Riverdale cast, Zac Efron, Chris Pratt, Nina Dobrev, Lucy Hale, and many more.
Riverdale, The Flash, The Greatest Showman, and Love, Simon were among the night’s biggest winners.
Check out the full list of winners below.
MOVIES
Choice Action Movie
*WINNER: Avengers: Infinity War
Justice League
Maze Runner: The Death Cure
Pacific Rim: Uprising
Tomb Raider
Choice Action Movie Actor
Chris Evans – Avengers: Infinity War
Dylan O’Brien – Maze Runner: The Death Cure
Henry Cavill – Justice League
John Boyega – Pacific Rim: Uprising
*WINNER: Robert Downey Jr. – Avengers: Infinity War
Tom Holland – Avengers: Infinity War
Choice Action Movie Actress
Alicia Vikander – Tomb Raider
Amy Adams – Justice League
Elizabeth Olsen – Avengers: Infinity War
Gal Gadot – Justice League
*WINNER: Scarlett Johansson – Avengers: Infinity War
Zoe Saldana – Avengers: Infinity War
Choice Sci-Fi Movie
*WINNER: Black Panther
Blade Runner 2049
Rampage
Ready Player One
Thor: Ragnarok
Choice Sci-Fi Movie Actor
Chadwick Boseman – Black Panther
*WINNER: Chris Hemsworth – Thor: Ragnarok
Dwayne Johnson – Rampage
Mark Ruffalo – Thor: Ragnarok
Ryan Gosling – Blade Runner 2049
Tye Sheridan – Ready Player One
Choice Sci-Fi Movie Actress
Danai Gurira – Black Panther
*WINNER: Letitia Wright – Black Panther
Lupita Nyong’o – Black Panther
Naomie Harris – Rampage
Olivia Cooke – Ready Player One
Tessa Thompson – Thor: Ragnarok
Choice Fantasy Movie
A Wrinkle in Time
*WINNER: Coco
Peter Rabbit
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Choice Fantasy Movie Actor
*WINNER: Anthony Gonzalez – Coco
Gael García Bernal – Coco
James Corden – Peter Rabbit
John Boyega – Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Mark Hamill – Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Oscar Isaac – Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Choice Fantasy Movie Actress
*WINNER: Carrie Fisher — Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Daisy Ridley – Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Mindy Kaling – A Wrinkle in Time
Oprah Winfrey – A Wrinkle in Time
Reese Witherspoon – A Wrinkle in Time
Storm Reid – A Wrinkle in Time
Choice Drama Movie
A Quiet Place
Midnight Sun
Murder on the Orient Express
*WINNER: The Greatest Showman
Truth or Dare
Wonder
Choice Drama Movie Actor
Hugh Jackman – The Greatest Showman
Jacob Tremblay – Wonder
Leslie Odom Jr. – Murder on the Orient Express
Patrick Schwarzenegger – Midnight Sun
Timothée Chalamet – Lady Bird
*WINNER: Zac Efron – The Greatest Showman
Choice Drama Movie Actress
Bella Thorne – Midnight Sun
Daisy Ridley – Murder on the Orient Express
Julia Roberts – Wonder
Lucy Hale – Truth or Dare
Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird
*WINNER: Zendaya – The Greatest Showman
Choice Comedy Movie
Daddy’s Home 2
I Feel Pretty
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
*WINNER: Love, Simon
Overboard
Pitch Perfect 3
Choice Comedy Movie Actor
*WINNER: Dwayne Johnson — Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Eugenio Derbez – Overboard
Jack Black – Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Kevin Hart – Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Mark Wahlberg – Daddy’s Home 2
Will Ferrell – Daddy’s Home 2
Choice Comedy Movie Actress
Amy Schumer – I Feel Pretty
Anna Faris – Overboard
*WINNER: Anna Kendrick – Pitch Perfect 3
Hailee Steinfeld – Pitch Perfect 3
Karen Gillan – Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Rebel Wilson – Pitch Perfect 3
Choice Summer Movie
Adrift
*WINNER: Incredibles 2
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Life of the Party
Ocean’s 8
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Choice Summer Movie Actor
Alden Ehrenreich — Solo: A Star Wars Story
*WINNER: Chris Pratt — Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Donald Glover — Solo: A Star Wars Story
Julian Dennison — Deadpool 2
Ryan Reynolds — Deadpool 2
Sam Claflin — Adrift
Choice Summer Movie Actress
*WINNER: Bryce Dallas Howard — Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Emilia Clarke — Solo: A Star Wars Story
Melissa McCarthy — Life of the Party
Sandra Bullock — Ocean’s 8
Shailene Woodley — Adrift
Zazie Beetz — Deadpool 2
Choice Movie Villain
Adam Driver — Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Aiden Gillen — Maze Runner: The Death Cure
Bill Skarsgård — It
Cate Blanchett — Thor: Ragnarok
Josh Brolin — Avengers: Infinity War
*WINNER: Michael B. Jordan, Black Panther
Choice Breakout Movie Star
Keala Settle — The Greatest Showman
Kelly Marie Tran — Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Letitia Wright — Black Panther
*WINNER: Nick Robinson — Love, Simon
Olivia Cooke — Ready Player One
Sophia Lillis — It
Choice MovieShip
Bella Thorne and Patrick Schwarzenegger — Midnight Sun
Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong’o — Black Panther
Dylan O’Brien and Kaya Scodelario — Maze Runner: The Death Cure
Nick Robinson and Keiynan Lonsdale — Love, Simon
Sophia Lillis and Jeremy Ray Taylor — It
*WINNER: Zac Efron and Zendaya — The Greatest Showman
TV
Choice Drama TV Show
Empire
Famous in Love
*WINNER: Riverdale
Star
The Fosters
This Is Us
Choice Drama TV Actor
*WINNER: Cole Sprouse — Riverdale
Freddie Highmore — The Good Doctor
Jesse Williams — Grey’s Anatomy
Jussie Smollett — Empire
K.J. Apa — Riverdale
Sterling K. Brown — This Is Us
Choice Drama TV Actress
Bella Thorne — Famous in Love
Camila Mendes — Riverdale
Chrissy Metz — This Is Us
*WINNER: Lili Reinhart — Riverdale
Maia Mitchell — The Fosters
Ryan Destiny — Star
Choice Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Show
iZombie
*WINNER: Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments
Stranger Things
Supernatural
The 100
The Originals
Kevin Winter/Getty
Choice Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Actor
Bob Morley — The 100
Dominic Sherwood — Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments
Finn Wolfhard — Stranger Things
Gaten Matarazzo — Stranger Things
Joseph Morgan — The Originals
*WINNER: Matthew Daddario — Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments
Choice Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Actress
Eliza Taylor — The 100
Emeraude Toubia — Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments
Katherine McNamara — Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments
Lana Parrilla — Once Upon a Time
*WINNER: Millie Bobby Brown — Stranger Things
Rose McIver — iZombie
Choice Action TV Show
Arrow
Gotham
Lethal Weapon
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Supergirl
*WINNER: The Flash
Choice Action TV Actor (#ChoiceActionTVActor)
Chris Wood — Supergirl
Damon Wayans — Lethal Weapon
David Mazouz — Gotham
*WINNER: Grant Gustin — The Flash
Lucas Till — MacGyver
Stephen Amell — Arrow
Choice Action TV Actress (#ChoiceActionTVActress)
Caity Lotz — DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
Candice Patton — The Flash
Chloe Bennet — Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Danielle Panabaker — The Flash
Emily Bett Rickards — Arrow
*WINNER: Melissa Benoist — Supergirl
Choice Comedy TV Show
black-ish
Fuller House
Jane the Virgin
Modern Family
*WINNER: The Big Bang Theory
The Good Place
Choice Comedy TV Actor
Andy Samberg — Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Anthony Anderson — black-ish
Elias Harger — Fuller House
Hudson Yang — Fresh Off the Boat
*WINNER: Jaime Camil —��Jane the Virgin
Rico Rodriguez — Modern Family
Choice Comedy TV Actress
America Ferrera — Superstore
Candace Cameron Bure — Fuller House
*WINNER: Gina Rodriguez — Jane the Virgin
Kristen Bell — The Good Place
Sarah Hyland — Modern Family
Yara Shahidi — blackish, grown-ish
Choice Animated TV Show
Bob’s Burgers
Family Guy
*WINNER: Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
Rick and Morty
Steven Universe
The Simpsons
Choice Reality TV Show
*WINNER: Keeping Up With the Kardashians
Lip Sync Battle
MasterChef Junior
The Four: Battle for Stardom
The Voice
Total Divas
Choice Throwback TV Show
Dawson’s Creek
*WINNER: Friends
Gossip Girl
One Tree Hill
That ’70s Show
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Choice TV Personality
*WINNER: Chrissy Teigen — Lip Sync Battle
Derek Hough — World of Dance
DJ Khaled — The Four: Battle for Stardom
Hailey Baldwin — Drop the Mic
Kelly Clarkson — The Voice
Meghan Trainor — The Four: Battle for Stardom
Choice Summer TV Show
Beat Shazam
Cobra Kai
Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger
*WINNER: So You Think You Can Dance
The Bold Type
Total Bellas
Choice Summer TV Star
Aisha Dee — The Bold Type
Aubrey Joseph — Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger
Katie Stevens — The Bold Type
Meghann Fahy — The Bold Type
*WINNER: Olivia Holt — Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger
Xolo Maridueña — Cobra Kai
Choice TV Villain
Anna Hopkins, Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments
Cameron Monaghan, Gotham
Gabrielle Anwar, Once Upon a Time
*WINNER: Mark Consuelos, Riverdale
Mind Flayer, Stranger Things
Odette Annable, Supergirl
Choice Breakout TV Show
9-1-1
Anne With an E
Black Lightning
*WINNER: On My Block
Siren
The Resident
Choice Breakout TV Star
Iain Armitage, Young Sheldon
Luka Sabbat, Grown–ish
Lyric Ross, This Is Us
Nafessa Williams, Black Lightning
Oliver Stark, 9-1-1
*WINNER: Vanessa Morgan, Riverdale
Choice TVShip
Cole Sprouse and Lili Reinhart — Riverdale
Grant Gustin and Candice Patton — The Flash
K.J. Apa and Camila Mendes — Riverdale
Matthew Daddario and Harry Shum Jr. — Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments
Millie Bobby Brown and Finn Wolfhard — Stranger Things
Stephen Amell and Emily Bett Rickards — Arrow
MUSIC
Choice Male Artist
Bruno Mars
Drake
Ed Sheeran
*WINNER: Louis Tomlinson
Niall Horan
Shawn Mendes
Choice Female Artist
Ariana Grande
*WINNER: Camila Cabello
Cardi B
Demi Lovato
Dua Lipa
Taylor Swift
Choice Music Group
*WINNER: 5 Seconds of Summer
Fifth Harmony
Florida Georgia Line
Maroon 5
Migos
Why Don’t We
Choice Country Artist
Blake Shelton
*WINNER: Carrie Underwood
Kane Brown
Kelsea Ballerini
Maren Morris
Thomas Rhett
Choice Electronic/Dance Artist
Calvin Harris
Marshmello
Martin Garrix
Steve Aoki
*WINNER: The Chainsmokers
Zedd
Choice Latin Artist
Becky G
*WINNER: CNCO
Daddy Yankee
J Balvin
Luis Fonsi
Maluma
Choice R&B/Hip-Hop Artist
*WINNER: Cardi B
Childish Gambino
Drake
Khalid
Nicki Minaj
Post Malone
Choice Rock Artist
*WINNER: Imagine Dragons
Panic! At the Disco
Paramore
Portugal. The Man
twenty one pilots
X Ambassadors
Choice Song: Female Artist
Ariana Grande – “No Tears Left To Cry”
*WINNER: Camila Cabello (feat. Young Thug) – “Havana”
Demi Lovato – “Sorry Not Sorry”
Dua Lipa – “New Rules”
Halsey – “Bad at Love”
Taylor Swift – “Look What You Made Me Do”
Choice Song: Male Artist
Charlie Puth – “Attention”
Childish Gambino – “This Is America”
Drake – “God’s Plan”
*WINNER: Ed Sheeran – “Perfect”
Justin Timberlake (feat. Chris Stapleton) – “Say Something”
Kendrick Lamar (feat. Zacari) – “Love.”
Choice Song: Group
*WINNER: 5 Seconds of Summer – “Youngblood”
Imagine Dragons – “Whatever It Takes”
Maroon 5 – “Wait”
Panic! At the Disco – “Say Amen (Saturday Night)”
Portugal. The Man – “Feel It Still”
Why Don’t We – “Trust Fund Baby”
Choice Collaboration
Bebe Rexha (feat. Florida Georgia Line) – “Meant to Be”
Bruno Mars (feat. Cardi B) – “Finesse (Remix)”
Taylor Swift (feat. Ed Sheeran & Future) – “End Game”
The Weeknd & Kendrick Lamar – “Pray for Me” (“Black Panther” soundtrack)
*WINNER: Zac Efron & Zendaya – “Rewrite the Stars” (“The Greatest Showman” soundtrack)
Zedd, Maren Morris & Grey – “The Middle”
Choice Summer Song
*WINNER: “Back to You” – Selena Gomez
“Familiar” – Liam Payne & J Balvin
“Girls Like You” – Maroon 5 feat. Cardi B
“Nice for What” – Drake
“One Kiss” – Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa
“Youngblood” – 5 Seconds of Summer
Choice Summer Female Artist
*WINNER: Camila Cabello
Cardi B
Selena Gomez
Ariana Grande
Halsey
Meghan Trainor
Choice Summer Male Artist
Kane Brown
Niall Horan
*WINNER: Shawn Mendes
Liam Payne
Charlie Puth
Zayn
Choice Summer Group
*WINNER: 5 Seconds of Summer
The Chainsmokers
Dan + Shay
Imagine Dragons
Maroon 5
Panic! at the Disco
Choice Summer Tour
Niall Horan – Flicker World Tour
Jay Z & Beyoncé – On the Run II Tour
Charlie Puth – Voicenotes Tour
*WINNER: Harry Styles – Harry Styles: Live on Tour
Taylor Swift – Reputation Stadium Tour
Top Dawg Entertainment – The Championship Tour
Choice Pop Song
Ariana Grande — “No Tears Left to Cry”
Keala Settle and The Greatest Showman Ensemble — “This Is Me”
Meghan Trainor — “No Excuses”
*WINNER: Shawn Mendes — “In My Blood”
Taylor Swift — “Delicate”
The Backstreet Boys — “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart”
Choice Country Song
*WINNER: Bebe Rexha — “Meant to Be (feat. Florida Georgia Line)”
Brett Young — “Mercy”
Carrie Underwood — “Cry Pretty”
Kane Brown — “Heaven”
Luke Bryan — “Most People Are Good”
Thomas Rhett — “Life Changes”
Choice Electronic/Dance Song
Calvin Harris and Dua Lipa — “One Kiss”
Clean Bandit — “Solo (feat. Demi Lovato)”
Marshmello and Anne–Marie — “Friends”
*WINNER: Steve Aoki and Lauren Jauregui — “All Night”
Topic and Ally Brooke — “Perfect”
Zedd, Maren Morris and Grey — “The Middle”
Choice Latin Song
CNCO and Yandel — “Hey DJ”
J Balvin and Willy William — “Mi Gente”
Jennifer Lopez — “Dinero (feat. DJ Khaled and Cardi B)”
*WINNER: Liam Payne and J Balvin — “Familiar”
Luis Fonsi and Demi Lovato — “Échame La Culpa”
RedOne, Daddy Yankee, French Montana, and Dinah Jane — “Boom Boom”
Choice R&B/Hip-Hop Song
Bruno Mars — ” Finesse (Remix) [feat. Cardi B]”
Childish Gambino — “This Is America”
Drake — “God’s Plan”
Kendrick Lamar and SZA — “All the Stars”
*WINNER: Khalid and Normani — “Love Lies”
NF — “Let You Down”
Choice Rock/Alternative Song
Alice Merton — “No Roots”
Foster the People — “Sit Next to Me”
Halsey — “Alone (feat. Big Sean and Stefflon Don)”
*WINNER: Imagine Dragons — “Whatever It Takes”
Panic! At the Disco — “High Hopes”
Paramore — “Hard Times”
Choice Breakout Artist
Bazzi
*WINNER: Khalid
Lauv
Logic
Marshmello
SZA
Kevin Winter/Getty
Choice Next Big Thing
Black Pink
*WINNER: Jackson Wang
Jacob Sartorius
MattyBRaps
NCT
Stray
DIGITAL
Choice Female Web Star
Bethany Mota
Eva Gutowski
Lele Pons
Lilly Singh
*WINNER: Liza Koshy
The Merrell Twins
Choice Male Web Star
Cameron Dallas
Collins Key
Joey Graceffa
Ryan Higa
*WINNER: The Dolan Twins
Tyler Oakley
Choice Comedy Web Star
The Dolan Twins
Collins Key
*WINNER: Liza Koshy
Miranda Sings
Lele Pons
Lilly Singh
Choice Music Web Star
Anitta
Chloe x Halle
*WINNER: Erika Costell
Jack & Jack
Johnny Orlando
Noah Schnacky
Choice Fashion/Beauty Web Star
Dulce Candy
*WINNER: James Charles
Kandee Johnson
Shay Mitchell
NikkieTutorials
Zoella
Choice Twit
*WINNER: Anna Kendrick
Chrissy Teigen
Kumail Nanjiani
Mark Hamill
Mindy Kaling
Ryan Reynolds
Kevin Winter/Getty
Choice Instagrammer
Dwayne Johnson
John Mayer
Justin Timberlake
Lucy Hale
*WINNER: Selena Gomez
Will Smith
Choice Snapchatter
*WINNER: Ariana Grande
Demi Lovato
Ethan Dolan
Grayson Dolan
Kendall Jenner
Meghan Trainor
Choice YouTuber
DanTDM
Lele Pons
Lilly Singh
*WINNER: Liza Koshy
The Dolan Twins
The Merrell Twins
Choice Muser
Baby Ariel
Holly H (Holly Horne)
Loren Gray
*WINNER: Mackenzie Ziegler
Sofia Santino
Valentina Schulz
OTHER
Choice Style Icon
Chadwick Boseman
Blake Lively
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
Migos
*WINNER: Harry Styles
Zendaya
Choice Female Hottie
Hailey Baldwin
Kendall Jenner
*WINNER: Lauren Jauregui
Olivia Holt
Selena Gomez
Yara Shahidi
Choice Male Hottie
Chadwick Boseman
Chris Hemsworth
*WINNER: Cole Sprouse
Grant Gustin
Shawn Mendes
Zac Efron
Choice Liplock
Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong’o, Black Panther
Chris Pratt and Zoe Saldana, Avengers: Infinity War
*WINNER: Cole Sprouse and Lili Reinhart, Riverdale
Gina Rodriguez and Justin Baldoni, Jane the Virgin
Millie Bobby Brown and Finn Wolfhard, Stranger Things
Zac Efron and Zendaya, The Greatest Showman
Choice Hissy Fit
Adam Driver, Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Jack Black, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Joe Keery, Stranger Things
Kevin Hart, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
*WINNER: Madelaine Petsch, Riverdale
Mark Ruffalo, Avengers: Infinity War
Choice Scene Stealer
Charlie Heaton — Stranger Things
Katie McGrath — Supergirl
Nick Jonas — Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Taika Waititi — Thor: Ragnarok
Tom Hiddleston — Thor: Ragnarok
*WINNER: Vanessa Morgan — Riverdale
Choice Comedian
Ellen DeGeneres
James Corden
Jimmy Fallon
Kevin Hart
Lilly Singh
*WINNER: The Dolan Twins
Choice Male Athlete
Adam Rippon
J.J. Watt
*WINNER: LeBron James
Red Gerard
Shaun White
Stephen Curry
Choice Female Athlete
Chloe Kim
Lindsey Vonn
Mikaela Shiffrin
Mirai Nagasu
*WINNER: Serena Williams
U.S. Olympic Women’s Ice Hockey Team
Choice Dancer
Cheryl Burke
Jenna Dewan
Derek Hough
Les Twins
tWitch
*WINNER: Maddie Ziegler
Choice Video Game
Fire Emblem Heroes
*WINNER: Fortnite
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Overwatch
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
Super Mario Odyssey
Choice Model
Adwoa Aboah
Romeo Beckham
Kaia Gerber
Bella Hadid
*WINNER: Gigi Hadid
Jaden Smith
Choice Fandom
#Blinks
*WINNER: #BTSArmy
#CNCOwners
#Directioners
#Harmonizers
#Swifties
Choice International Artist
Black Pink
*WINNER: BTS
CNCO
EXO
Got7
Super Junior
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Teen Choice Awards: Full list of winners!
Teen Choice Awards: Full list of winners!
The armies have spoken and the votes are in on our favorite stars.
Teen Choice Awards: Full list of winners!
Fans voted online and spent a lot of time hashtagging their favorite stars from the industry.
Nick Cannon was the show’s host and the Teen Choice Awards had some amazing performers including Lauv, Khalid, and Meghan Trainor. But there were many more and they all did a fantastic job.
Paris Jackson sings for cancer, watch as her grandmother cheers her on!
The most notable winners of the night leave us with no surprise. They were Riverdale and The Flash.
You can check out a full list of the winners below. And if you’re enjoying the positive vibes, be sure to subscribe to our positive celebrity gossip newsletter. That way you can stay up-to-date on the latest positive celebrity news!
It was a hot night with so many fan-favorite celebrities in attendance including Zac Efron, Pretty Much, Meghan Trainor, Lauren Jauregui and many more!
Check out the list and let us know what you thought of the winners!
Blessed be!
List of Teen Choice Awards 2018
MOVIES
Choice Action Movie
WINNER: Avengers: Infinity War
Justice League
Maze Runner: The Death Cure
Pacific Rim: Uprising
Tomb Raider
Choice Action Movie Actor
Chris Evans – Avengers: Infinity War
Dylan O’Brien – Maze Runner: The Death Cure
Henry Cavill – Justice League
John Boyega – Pacific Rim: Uprising
WINNER: Robert Downey Jr. – Avengers: Infinity War
Tom Holland – Avengers: Infinity War
Choice Action Movie Actress
Alicia Vikander – Tomb Raider
Amy Adams – Justice League
Elizabeth Olsen – Avengers: Infinity War
Gal Gadot – Justice League
WINNER: Scarlett Johansson – Avengers: Infinity War
Zoe Saldana – Avengers: Infinity War
Choice Sci-Fi Movie
WINNER: Black Panther
Blade Runner 2049
Rampage
Ready Player One
Thor: Ragnarok
Choice Sci-Fi Movie Actor
Chadwick Boseman – Black Panther
WINNER: Chris Hemsworth – Thor: Ragnarok
Dwayne Johnson – Rampage
Mark Ruffalo – Thor: Ragnarok
Ryan Gosling – Blade Runner 2049
Tye Sheridan – Ready Player One
Choice Sci-Fi Movie Actress
Danai Gurira – Black Panther
WINNER: Letitia Wright – Black Panther
Lupita Nyong’o – Black Panther
Naomie Harris – Rampage
Olivia Cooke – Ready Player One
Tessa Thompson – Thor: Ragnarok
Choice Fantasy Movie
A Wrinkle in Time
WINNER: Coco
Peter Rabbit
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Choice Fantasy Movie Actor
WINNER: Anthony Gonzalez – Coco
Gael García Bernal – Coco
James Corden – Peter Rabbit
John Boyega – Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Mark Hamill – Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Oscar Isaac – Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Choice Fantasy Movie Actress
WINNER: Carrie Fisher – Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Daisy Ridley – Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Mindy Kaling – A Wrinkle in Time
Oprah Winfrey – A Wrinkle in Time
Reese Witherspoon – A Wrinkle in Time
Storm Reid – A Wrinkle in Time
Choice Drama Movie
A Quiet Place
Midnight Sun
Murder on the Orient Express
WINNER: The Greatest Showman
Truth or Dare
Wonder
Choice Drama Movie Actor
Hugh Jackman – The Greatest Showman
Jacob Tremblay – Wonder
Leslie Odom Jr. – Murder on the Orient Express
Patrick Schwarzenegger – Midnight Sun
Timothée Chalamet – Lady Bird
WINNER: Zac Efron – The Greatest Showman
Choice Drama Movie Actress
Bella Thorne – Midnight Sun
Daisy Ridley – Murder on the Orient Express
Julia Roberts – Wonder
Lucy Hale – Truth or Dare
Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird
WINNER: Zendaya – The Greatest Showman
Choice Comedy Movie
Daddy’s Home 2
I Feel Pretty
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
WINNER: Love, Simon
Overboard
Pitch Perfect 3
Choice Comedy Movie Actor
WINNER: Dwayne Johnson – Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Eugenio Derbez – Overboard
Jack Black – Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Kevin Hart – Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Mark Wahlberg – Daddy’s Home 2
Will Ferrell – Daddy’s Home 2
Choice Comedy Movie Actress
Amy Schumer – I Feel Pretty
Anna Faris – Overboard
WINNER: Anna Kendrick – Pitch Perfect 3
Hailee Steinfeld – Pitch Perfect 3
Karen Gillan – Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Rebel Wilson – Pitch Perfect 3
Choice Summer Movie
Adrift
WINNER: Incredibles 2
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Life of the Party
Ocean’s 8
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Choice Summer Movie Actor
WINNER: Chris Pratt, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Alden Ehrenreich – Solo: A Star Wars Story
Donald Glover – Solo: A Star Wars Story
Julian Dennison – Deadpool 2
Ryan Reynolds – Deadpool 2
Sam Claflin – Adrift
Choice Summer Movie Actress
WINNER: Bryce Dallas Howard, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Emilia Clarke – Solo: A Star Wars Story
Melissa McCarthy – Life of the Party
Sandra Bullock – Ocean’s 8
Shailene Woodley – Adrift
Zazie Beetz – Deadpool 2
Choice Movie Villain
Adam Driver – Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Aiden Gillen – Maze Runner: The Death Cure
Bill Skarsgard – It
Cate Blanchett – Thor: Ragnarok
Josh Brolin – Avengers: Infinity War
WINNER: Michael B. Jordan – Black Panther
Choice Breakout Movie Star
Keala Settle – The Greatest Showman
Kelly Marie Tran – Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Letitia Wright – Black Panther
WINNER: Nick Robinson – Love, Simon
Olivia Cooke – Ready Player One
Sophia Lillis – It
Choice Movie Ship
Bella Thorne & Patrick Schwarzenegger – Midnight Sun
Chadwick Boseman & Lupita Nyong’o – Black Panther
Dylan O’Brien & Kaya Scodelario – Maze Runner: The Death Cure
Nick Robinson & Keiynan Lonsdale – Love, Simon
Sophia Lillis & Jeremy Ray Taylor – It
WINNERS: Zac Efron & Zendaya, The Greatest Showman
TV
Choice Drama TV Show
Empire
Famous in Love
WINNER: Riverdale
Star
The Fosters
This Is Us
Choice Drama TV Actor
WINNER: Cole Sprouse — Riverdale
Freddie Highmore — The Good Doctor
Jesse Williams — Grey’s Anatomy
Jussie Smollett — Empire
K.J. Apa — Riverdale
Sterling K. Brown — This Is Us
Choice Drama TV Actress
Bella Thorne — Famous in Love
Camila Mendes — Riverdale
Chrissy Metz — This Is Us
WINNER: Lili Reinhart — Riverdale
Maia Mitchell — The Fosters
Ryan Destiny — Star
Choice Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Show
iZombie
WINNER: Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments
Stranger Things
Supernatural
The 100
The Originals
Choice Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Actor
Bob Morley — The 100
Dominic Sherwood — Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments
Finn Wolfhard — Stranger Things
Gaten Matarazzo — Stranger Things
Joseph Morgan — The Originals
WINNER: Matthew Daddario — Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments
Choice Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Actress
Eliza Taylor — The 100
Emeraude Toubia — Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments
Katherine McNamara — Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments
Lana Parrilla — Once Upon a Time
WINNER: Millie Bobby Brown — Stranger Things
Rose McIver — iZombie
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WINNER: Mark Consuelos – Riverdale
Anna Hopkins – Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments
Cameron Monaghan – Gotham
Gabrielle Anwar – Once Upon a Time
Mind Flayer – Stranger Things
Odette Annable – Supergirl
Choice Action TV Show
Arrow
Gotham
Lethal Weapon
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Supergirl
WINNER: The Flash
Choice Action TV Actor
Chris Wood — Supergirl
Damon Wayans — Lethal Weapon
David Mazouz — Gotham
WINNER: Grant Gustin — The Flash
Lucas Till — MacGyver
Stephen Amell — Arrow
Choice Action TV Actress
Caity Lotz — DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
Candice Patton — The Flash
Chloe Bennet — Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Danielle Panabaker — The Flash
Emily Bett Rickards — Arrow
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Jane the Virgin
Modern Family
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The Good Place
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Anthony Anderson — black-ish
Elias Harger — Fuller House
Hudson Yang — Fresh Off the Boat
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Candace Cameron Bure — Fuller House
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Kristen Bell — The Good Place
Sarah Hyland — Modern Family
Yara Shahidi — blackish, grown-ish
Choice Animated TV Show
Bob’s Burgers
Family Guy
WINNER: Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
Rick and Morty
Steven Universe
The Simpsons
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MasterChef Junior
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The Voice
Total Divas
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Dawson’s Creek
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Gossip Girl
One Tree Hill
That ’70s Show
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
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Derek Hough — World of Dance
DJ Khaled — The Four: Battle for Stardom
Hailey Baldwin — Drop the Mic
Kelly Clarkson — The Voice
Meghan Trainor — The Four: Battle for Stardom
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Beat Shazam
Cobra Kai
Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger
WINNER: So You Think You Can Dance
The Bold Type
Total Bellas
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WINNER: Vanessa Morgan – Riverdale
Iain Armitage – Young Sheldon
Luka Sabbat – Grown-ish
Lyric Ross – This Is Us
Nafessa Williams – Black Lightning
Oliver Stark – 9-1-1
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Anne with an E
Black Lightning
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Siren
The Resident
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Grant Gustin & Candice Patton – The Flash
K.J. Apa & Camila Mendes – Riverdale
Matthew Daddario & Harry Shum Jr. – Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments
Millie Bobby Brown & Finn Wolfhard – Stranger Things
Stephen Amell & Emily Bett Rickards – Arrow
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Aisha Dee – The Bold Type
Aubrey Joseph – Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger
Katie Stevens – The Bold Type
Meghann Fahy – The Bold Type
Xolo Maridueña – Cobra Kai
MUSIC
Choice Male Artist
Bruno Mars
Drake
Ed Sheeran
WINNER: Louis Tomlinson
Niall Horan
Shawn Mendes
Choice Female Artist
Ariana Grande
WINNER: Camila Cabello
Cardi B
Demi Lovato
Dua Lipa
Taylor Swift
Choice Music Group
WINNER: 5 Seconds of Summer
Fifth Harmony
Florida Georgia Line
Maroon 5
Migos
Why Don’t We
Choice Country Artist
Blake Shelton
WINNER: Carrie Underwood
Kane Brown
Kelsea Ballerini
Maren Morris
Thomas Rhett
Choice Electronic/Dance Artist
Calvin Harris
Marshmello
Martin Garrix
Steve Aoki
WINNER: The Chainsmokers
Zedd
Choice Latin Artist
Becky G
WINNER: CNCO
Daddy Yankee
J Balvin
Luis Fonsi
Maluma
Choice R&B/Hip-Hop Artist
WINNER: Cardi B
Childish Gambino
Drake
Khalid
Nicki Minaj
Post Malone
Choice Rock Artist
WINNER: Imagine Dragons
Panic! At the Disco
Paramore
Portugal. The Man
twenty one pilots
X Ambassadors
Choice Song: Female Artist
Ariana Grande – “No Tears Left To Cry”
WINNER: Camila Cabello (feat. Young Thug) – “Havana”
Demi Lovato – “Sorry Not Sorry”
Dua Lipa – “New Rules”
Halsey – “Bad at Love”
Taylor Swift – “Look What You Made Me Do”
Choice Song: Male Artist
Charlie Puth – “Attention”
Childish Gambino – “This Is America”
Drake – “God’s Plan”
WINNER: Ed Sheeran – “Perfect”
Justin Timberlake (feat. Chris Stapleton) – “Say Something”
Kendrick Lamar (feat. Zacari) – “Love.”
Choice Song: Group
WINNER: 5 Seconds of Summer – “Youngblood”
Imagine Dragons – “Whatever It Takes”
Maroon 5 – “Wait”
Panic! At the Disco – “Say Amen (Saturday Night)”
Portugal. The Man – “Feel It Still”
Why Don’t We – “Trust Fund Baby”
Choice R&B/Hip-Hop Song
“All The Stars” – Kendrick Lamar & SZA
“Finesse (Remix)” – Bruno Mars (feat. Cardi B)
“God’s Plan” – Drake
“Let You Down” – NF
WINNER: “Love Lies” – Khalid & Normani
“This Is America” – Childish Gambino
Choice Electronic/Dance Song
WINNER: “All Night” – Steve Aoki & Lauren Jauregui
“Friends” – Marshmello & Anne-Marie
“One Kiss” – Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa
“Perfect” – Topic & Ally Brooke
“Solo” – Clean Bandit (feat. Demi Lovato)
“The Middle” – Zedd, Maren Morris & Grey
Choice Country Song
“Cry Pretty” – Carrie Underwood
“Heaven” – Kane Brown
“Life Changes” – Thomas Rhett
WINNER: “Meant to Be” – Bebe Rexha (feat. Florida Georgia Line)
“Mercy” – Brett Young
“Most People Are Good” – Luke Bryan
Choice Collaboration
Bebe Rexha (feat. Florida Georgia Line) – “Meant to Be”
Bruno Mars (feat. Cardi B) – “Finesse (Remix)”
Taylor Swift (feat. Ed Sheeran & Future) – “End Game”
The Weeknd & Kendrick Lamar – “Pray for Me” (Black Panther soundtrack)
WINNERS: Zac Efron & Zendaya – “Rewrite the Stars” (The Greatest Showman soundtrack)
Zedd, Maren Morris & Grey – “The Middle”
Choice Pop Song
“Delicate” – Taylor Swift
“Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” – The Backstreet Boys
WINNER: “In My Blood” – Shawn Mendes
“No Excuses” – Meghan Trainor
“No Tears Left to Cry” – Ariana Grande
“This Is Me” – Keala Settle & The Greatest Showman Ensemble
Choice Latin Song
“Boom Boom” – RedOne, Daddy Yankee, French Montana & Dinah Jane
“Dinero” – Jennifer Lopez (feat. DJ Khaled, Cardi B)
“Echame La Culpa” – Luis Fonsi, Demi Lovato
WINNER: “Familiar” – Liam Payne & J Balvin
“Hey DJ” – CNCO, Yandel
“Mi Gente’ – J Balvin, Willy William
Choice Rock/Alternative Song
“Alone” – Halsey (feat. Big Sean & Stefflon Don)
“Hard Times” – Paramore
“High Hopes” – Panic! At The Disco
“No Roots” – Alice Merton
“Sit Next To Me” – Foster the People
WINNER: “Whatever It Takes” – Imagine Dragons
Choice Breakout Artist
Bazzi
WINNER: Khalid
Lauv
Logic
Marshmello
SZA
Choice Next Big Thing
Black Pink
WINNER: Jackson Wang
Jacob Sartorius
MattyBRaps
NCT
Stray
Choice International Artist
Black Pink
WINNER: BTS
CNCO
EXO
Got7
Super Junior
Choice Summer Song
WINNER: “Back To You” – Selena Gomez
“Familiar” – Liam Payne & J Balvin
“Girls Like You” – Maroon 5 feat. Cardi B
“Nice For What” – Drake
“One Kiss” – Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa
“Youngblood” – 5 Seconds of Summer
Choice Summer Female Artist
Ariana Grande
WINNER: Camila Cabello
Cardi B
Halsey
Meghan Trainor
Selena Gomez
Choice Summer Male Artist
Charlie Puth
Kane Brown
Liam Payne
Niall Horan
WINNER: Shawn Mendes
Zayn
Choice Summer Group
WINNER: 5 Seconds of Summer
Dan + Shay
Imagine Dragons
Maroon 5
Panic! At The Disco
The Chainsmokers
Choice Summer Tour
Charlie Puth – The Voicenotes Tour
WINNER: Harry Styles – Live on Tour
Jay-Z and Beyoncé – On the Run II Tour
Kendrick Lamar, SZA and More – The Championship Tour
Niall Horan – Flicker World Tour
Taylor Swift – Reputation Stadium Tour
OTHER
Choice Liplock
WINNER: Cole Sprouse & Lili Reinhart – Riverdale
Chadwick Boseman & Lupita Nyong’o – Black Panther
Chris Pratt & Zoe Saldana – Avengers: Infinity War
Gina Rodriguez & Justin Baldoni – Jane the Virgin
Millie Bobby Brown & Finn Wolfhard – Stranger Things
Zac Efron & Zendaya – The Greatest Showman
Choice Hissy Fit
WINNER: Madelaine Petsch – Riverdale
Adam Driver – Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Jack Black – Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Joe Keery – Stranger Things
Kevin Hart – Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Mark Ruffalo – Avengers: Infinity War
Choice Scene Stealer
WINNER: Vanessa Morgan – Riverdale
Charlie Heaton – Stranger Things
Katie McGrath – Supergirl
Nick Jonas – Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Taika Waititi – Thor: Ragnarok
Tom Hiddleston – Thor: Ragnarok
Choice Comedian
Ellen DeGeneres
James Corden
Jimmy Fallon
Kevin Hart
Lilly Singh
WINNER: The Dolan Twins
Choice Male Athlete
Adam Rippon
J.J. Watt
WINNER: LeBron James
Red Gerard
Shaun White
Stephen Curry
Choice Female Athlete
Chloe Kim
Lindsey Vonn
Mikaela Shiffrin
Mirai Nagasu
WINNER: Serena Williams
U.S. Olympic Women’s Ice Hockey Team
Choice Female Web Star
Bethany Mota
Eva Gutowski
Lele Pons
Lilly Singh
WINNER: Liza Koshy
The Merrell Twins
Choice Male Web Star
Cameron Dallas
Collins Key
Joey Graceffa
Ryan Higa
WINNER: The Dolan Twins
Tyler Oakley
Choice Comedy Web Star
Collins Key
Lele Pons
Lilly Singh
WINNER: Liza Koshy
Miranda Sings
The Dolan Twins
Choice Music Web Star
Anitta
Chloe x Halle
WINNER: Erika Costell
Jack & Jack
Johnny Orlando
Noah Schnacky
Choice Fashion/Beauty Web Star
Dulce Candy
WINNER: James Charles
Kandee Johnson
Nikkie de Jager (NikkieTutorials)
Shay Mitchell
Zoella
Choice Fandom
#Blinks
WINNER: #BTSArmy
#CNCOwners
#Directioners
#Harmonizers
#Swifties
Choice Female Hottie
WINNER: Lauren Jauregui
Hailey Baldwin
Kendall Jenner
Olivia Holt
Selena Gomez
Yara Shahidi
Choice Male Hottie
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Grant Gustin
Shawn Mendes
Zac Efron
Choice Twit
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Chrissy Teigen
Kumail Nanjiani
Mark Hamill
Mindy Kaling
Ryan Reynolds
Choice Instagrammer
Dwayne Johnson
John Mayer
Justin Timberlake
Lucy Hale
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Will Smith
Choice Snapchatter
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Ethan Dolan
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Choice YouTuber
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Lele Pons
Lilly Singh
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The Dolan Twins
The Merrell Twins
Choice Dancer
Cheryl Burke
Derek Hough
Jenna Dewan
Les Twins
tWitch
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Choice Muser
Baby Ariel
Holly H (Holly Home)
Loren Gray
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Choice Style Icon
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Migos
Zendaya
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Bella Hadid
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Kaia Gerber
Romeo Beckham
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Overwatch
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How Murder Victims With Disabilities Get Blamed For Their Own Deaths
Alex Spourdalakis was 14 when his mother and godmother decided to kill him.
The women tried to poison the boy, who had autism, with sleeping pills. When that failed, Dorothy Spourdalakis stabbed her son four times in the chest with a kitchen knife, twice hitting his heart. She slit one of his wrists so deeply she nearly severed his hand, according to court records. Then she handed the knife to Jolanta Agata Skrodzka, who used it to kill the family cat so it wouldn’t have to live in a shelter after their arrests.
A year later, 11-year-old Raashanai Coley, another child in Illinois, died from a stomach rupture after her mother, Nicholette Lawrence, punched her repeatedly. The autopsy revealed scars and old injuries indicating previous physical abuse.
Alex was killed in River Grove in 2013. Raashanai died in Waukegan in 2014. Both were slain by people entrusted to protect them. But the respective outcomes of these first-degree murder cases ― one involving a child with disabilities, the other involving a child without medically documented handicaps ― speak volumes about an insidious bias in the justice system.
Alex’s killers pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, and served three years each before they were sentenced to time served and released. Raashanai’s killer, meanwhile, was convicted of murder and is serving 43 years.
Advocates for the disabled say such disparities are common in a legal system that seems to treat accused killers less seriously when the victim was a person with special needs who depended on the person charged with murder for care.
On average, at least one disabled person is killed each week by a parent or caregiver, according to a Ruderman Family Foundation report that documented more than 200 deaths from 2011 to 2015.
The study found that taking a life ― something typically not tolerated in society ― is sometimes treated as acceptable in the justice system when the victim had a disability. Killers are commonly portrayed as angelic caretakers who killed out of mercy, or who could no longer bear the burden and snapped. Those perpetrators often face less than vigorous prosecution, the study found.
“The message is that murder is a reasonable response to disability, and courts will treat you lightly if you murder a disabled child, parent or spouse,” David Perry, a disability rights activist and author of the Ruderman report, told The Huffington Post.
Vilissa Thompson, an advocate and licensed master social worker from Winnsboro, South Carolina, said there is an obvious discrepancy in how the law and the public treat parents and caregivers accused of killing someone in their care.
“When someone, especially a child, is killed, it is called a hideous crime, and there is an urgency to punish the person responsible,” said Thompson, a contributor to the Ruderman report who was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, also known as brittle bone disease. “But when it comes to the disabled kids, there is this gross level of excusing that behavior.”
Spourdalakis, then 50, and Skrodzka, then 40, were both charged with first-degree murder in Alex’s slaying.
“The murder was committed in a cold, calculated and premeditated manner,” Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Maureen O’Brien told the Chicago Tribune at the time.
Lawrence, who was 32 when she was arrested, was also charged with first-degree murder in Raashanai’s slaying.
Lake County State’s Attorney Michael Nerheim, according to Chicago’s Daily Herald, called the treatment of the girl “inhumane” and “pure evil.”
Three years later, in December 2016, Spourdalakis and Skrodzka pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, and a judge showed the killers mercy.
“Justice has to have some compassion, and looking at the facts of this case, this was the just result,” Spourdalakis’ defense attorney, Michael Botti, told Chicago’s WLS-TV.
The following month, Lawrence, who pleaded guilty to murder, was sentenced to 43 years in prison by 19th Circuit Court Judge James Booras. It was the near-maximum for the charge. Booras referred to Lawrence as a “monster” and ruled her ineligible for early release. If she outlives her sentence, she will be in her mid-70s when she’s freed.
There also was a big difference in how the media covered the cases. Lawrence was all but labeled a vicious murderer. Spourdalakis and Skrodzka, on the other hand, were portrayed as victims.
WLS-TV reported on the “pain, frustration and fear” leading up to Alex’s slaying. The emotions were attributed not to the teen, but to Spourdalakis and Skrodzka, who were described as being burdened with the care of “a suburban boy with a severe form of autism.”
Other media outlets suggested the two women were desperate and emotionally broken from providing Alex with round-the-clock care. Some reports suggested the slaying was an act of mercy.
“That’s asinine,” Thompson told HuffPost. “You don’t kill your loved one because you can’t take care of them. Yes, there are stresses, but that does not give you an excuse.”
Alex’s mother said she did not want him in an institution, which she thought would be a form of torture, according to police. The women killed the family cat, authorities said, because Spourdalakis didn’t want authorities to take it to a shelter.
Thompson said there’s a word that describes the women’s actions, and it’s not mercy.
“They should not be looked on with sympathy,” she said. “That’s an abusive mindset. It’s no different than a spouse who says, ‘If I can’t have you no one can.’ Mercy is just an excuse.”
“Yes, there can be stresses caring for someone with a disability,” she went on. “And yes, we need to hold social services accountable in providing assistance. But none of that should give someone an excuse to kill.”
When a crime like this happens, the media often doesn’t put the victim at the center of his or her own story, Perry said.
Whenever Alex was mentioned in the media, he was characterized by his disability more often than as the victim of a horrific crime. Some reports used words like “aggressive” and “violent” to describe him. Details were printed about how he had to be tied to a bed during hospital visits. It was on social media, rather than in published reports, that people who knew Alex had the chance to share the most details about him. They described him as a smart young man who loved balloons, cards, music, nature and the color yellow.
“Everything in the media coverage was about his mom, and some of it was factually wrong,” Perry said. “No one investigated what she said or called anyone from the disability community for balanced coverage. They rushed to say, ‘Well, she must have been really overworked and must not have had any access to services.’”
In the months leading up to Alex’s death, the boy’s mother and godmother participated in a documentary by the Autism Media Channel. They told the filmmakers Alex was neglected by the health care system and was not provided enough outside support.
“She just couldn’t take seeing her son in pain anymore and seeing no future for him, and there was no help for him,” Polly Tommey, of the Autism Media Channel, told WLS-TV in 2014.
Alex’s slaying became the focus of the film, which wound up with the title “Who Killed Alex Spourdalakis?”
The lawyer who defended Alex’s mother also pointed a finger at the system, according to prosecutors.
Perry, an associate professor of history at Dominican University in Illinois and the father of a boy with Down syndrome, said those claims were not based in reality.
“There were concrete documented efforts by the autism community to help [Spourdalakis], and she rejected that,” Perry said. “She wanted her child cured, and when she couldn’t, she resorted to murder.”
In fact, after Alex was killed, a spokesperson for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services told the Chicago Tribune that Alex’s mother had refused “referrals to community-based services ranging from respite to psychological counseling.”
Mary Kay Betz, then executive director of the Autism Society of Illinois, told the Tribune that she too had met with Spourdalakis prior to Alex’s slaying and offered assistance, but “all she wanted was an attorney.”
Tommey, of the Autism Media Channel, told reporters that Alex’s mother and godmother “had absolutely nowhere to go, nowhere to live” and would go from “motel to motel.”
However, according to River Grove police, Spourdalakis and her son lived in the same well-kept River Grove apartment for nearly two decades ― the same apartment where Alex was killed and where Spourdalakis and Skrodzka drugged themselves in an apparent suicide attempt after his death, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Tommey didn’t respond to a request for comment about her description of Spourdalakis’ living situation.
The district attorney’s office ― the same one that called Alex’s killing “cold, calculated and premeditated” ― evidently softened its view over time.
After the two women were sentenced, Botti, Spourdalakis’ attorney, told Chicago’s CBS News Channel 2 that the prosecutor had described in court how, through all the years of Alex’s life, “every door was closed.” Botti said the prosecutor spoke about “the abuse [Alex] dealt with when he was taken to the hospital and all the restraints he was put in.”
The Ruderman report on Alex’s death and others like it was born out of frustration over what the report’s creators see as a disregard for the victims.
“It is abhorrent that a person with a disability is murdered by their parents, children or caregivers every week,” said Jay Ruderman, president of the organization. “This statistic itself is tragic, but what is even more abhorrent is that the journalists covering these murders all too often erase the voice of the person with a disability and occasionally even sympathize with the murderers.”
That sympathy, according to the report, is rooted in a widespread, little-examined notion that disability automatically equates to suffering.
“That’s a big misconception,” Thompson said. “We’re not all suffering and in reality, the most amount of suffering the victims endure is when they are being killed.”
“Let us not obscure the fact,” she said, “that murder is murder.”
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How Murder Victims With Disabilities Get Blamed For Their Own Deaths
Alex Spourdalakis was 14 when his mother and godmother decided to kill him.
The women tried to poison the boy, who had autism, with sleeping pills. When that failed, Dorothy Spourdalakis stabbed her son four times in the chest with a kitchen knife, twice hitting his heart. She slit one of his wrists so deeply she nearly severed his hand, according to court records. Then she handed the knife to Jolanta Agata Skrodzka, who used it to kill the family cat so it wouldn’t have to live in a shelter after their arrests.
A year later, 11-year-old Raashanai Coley, another child in Illinois, died from a stomach rupture after her mother, Nicholette Lawrence, punched her repeatedly. The autopsy revealed scars and old injuries indicating previous physical abuse.
Alex was killed in River Grove in 2013. Raashanai died in Waukegan in 2014. Both were slain by people entrusted to protect them. But the respective outcomes of these first-degree murder cases ― one involving a child with disabilities, the other involving a child without medically documented handicaps ― speak volumes about an insidious bias in the justice system.
Alex’s killers pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, and served three years each before they were sentenced to time served and released. Raashanai’s killer, meanwhile, was convicted of murder and is serving 43 years.
Advocates for the disabled say such disparities are common in a legal system that seems to treat accused killers less seriously when the victim was a person with special needs who depended on the person charged with murder for care.
On average, at least one disabled person is killed each week by a parent or caregiver, according to a Ruderman Family Foundation report that documented more than 200 deaths from 2011 to 2015.
The study found that taking a life ― something typically not tolerated in society ― is sometimes treated as acceptable in the justice system when the victim had a disability. Killers are commonly portrayed as angelic caretakers who killed out of mercy, or who could no longer bear the burden and snapped. Those perpetrators often face less than vigorous prosecution, the study found.
“The message is that murder is a reasonable response to disability, and courts will treat you lightly if you murder a disabled child, parent or spouse,” David Perry, a disability rights activist and author of the Ruderman report, told The Huffington Post.
Vilissa Thompson, an advocate and licensed master social worker from Winnsboro, South Carolina, said there is an obvious discrepancy in how the law and the public treat parents and caregivers accused of killing someone in their care.
“When someone, especially a child, is killed, it is called a hideous crime, and there is an urgency to punish the person responsible,” said Thompson, a contributor to the Ruderman report who was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, also known as brittle bone disease. “But when it comes to the disabled kids, there is this gross level of excusing that behavior.”
Spourdalakis, then 50, and Skrodzka, then 40, were both charged with first-degree murder in Alex’s slaying.
“The murder was committed in a cold, calculated and premeditated manner,” Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Maureen O’Brien told the Chicago Tribune at the time.
Lawrence, who was 32 when she was arrested, was also charged with first-degree murder in Raashanai’s slaying.
Lake County State’s Attorney Michael Nerheim, according to Chicago’s Daily Herald, called the treatment of the girl “inhumane” and “pure evil.”
Three years later, in December 2016, Spourdalakis and Skrodzka pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, and a judge showed the killers mercy.
“Justice has to have some compassion, and looking at the facts of this case, this was the just result,” Spourdalakis’ defense attorney, Michael Botti, told Chicago’s WLS-TV.
The following month, Lawrence, who pleaded guilty to murder, was sentenced to 43 years in prison by 19th Circuit Court Judge James Booras. It was the near-maximum for the charge. Booras referred to Lawrence as a “monster” and ruled her ineligible for early release. If she outlives her sentence, she will be in her mid-70s when she’s freed.
There also was a big difference in how the media covered the cases. Lawrence was all but labeled a vicious murderer. Spourdalakis and Skrodzka, on the other hand, were portrayed as victims.
WLS-TV reported on the “pain, frustration and fear” leading up to Alex’s slaying. The emotions were attributed not to the teen, but to Spourdalakis and Skrodzka, who were described as being burdened with the care of “a suburban boy with a severe form of autism.”
Other media outlets suggested the two women were desperate and emotionally broken from providing Alex with round-the-clock care. Some reports suggested the slaying was an act of mercy.
“That’s asinine,” Thompson told HuffPost. “You don’t kill your loved one because you can’t take care of them. Yes, there are stresses, but that does not give you an excuse.”
Alex’s mother said she did not want him in an institution, which she thought would be a form of torture, according to police. The women killed the family cat, authorities said, because Spourdalakis didn’t want authorities to take it to a shelter.
Thompson said there’s a word that describes the women’s actions, and it’s not mercy.
“They should not be looked on with sympathy,” she said. “That’s an abusive mindset. It’s no different than a spouse who says, ‘If I can’t have you no one can.’ Mercy is just an excuse.”
“Yes, there can be stresses caring for someone with a disability,” she went on. “And yes, we need to hold social services accountable in providing assistance. But none of that should give someone an excuse to kill.”
When a crime like this happens, the media often doesn’t put the victim at the center of his or her own story, Perry said.
Whenever Alex was mentioned in the media, he was characterized by his disability more often than as the victim of a horrific crime. Some reports used words like “aggressive” and “violent” to describe him. Details were printed about how he had to be tied to a bed during hospital visits. It was on social media, rather than in published reports, that people who knew Alex had the chance to share the most details about him. They described him as a smart young man who loved balloons, cards, music, nature and the color yellow.
“Everything in the media coverage was about his mom, and some of it was factually wrong,” Perry said. “No one investigated what she said or called anyone from the disability community for balanced coverage. They rushed to say, ‘Well, she must have been really overworked and must not have had any access to services.’”
In the months leading up to Alex’s death, the boy’s mother and godmother participated in a documentary by the Autism Media Channel. They told the filmmakers Alex was neglected by the health care system and was not provided enough outside support.
“She just couldn’t take seeing her son in pain anymore and seeing no future for him, and there was no help for him,” Polly Tommey, of the Autism Media Channel, told WLS-TV in 2014.
Alex’s slaying became the focus of the film, which wound up with the title “Who Killed Alex Spourdalakis?”
The lawyer who defended Alex’s mother also pointed a finger at the system, according to prosecutors.
Perry, an associate professor of history at Dominican University in Illinois and the father of a boy with Down syndrome, said those claims were not based in reality.
“There were concrete documented efforts by the autism community to help [Spourdalakis], and she rejected that,” Perry said. “She wanted her child cured, and when she couldn’t, she resorted to murder.”
In fact, after Alex was killed, a spokesperson for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services told the Chicago Tribune that Alex’s mother had refused “referrals to community-based services ranging from respite to psychological counseling.”
Mary Kay Betz, then executive director of the Autism Society of Illinois, told the Tribune that she too had met with Spourdalakis prior to Alex’s slaying and offered assistance, but “all she wanted was an attorney.”
Tommey, of the Autism Media Channel, told reporters that Alex’s mother and godmother “had absolutely nowhere to go, nowhere to live” and would go from “motel to motel.”
However, according to River Grove police, Spourdalakis and her son lived in the same well-kept River Grove apartment for nearly two decades ― the same apartment where Alex was killed and where Spourdalakis and Skrodzka drugged themselves in an apparent suicide attempt after his death, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Tommey didn’t respond to a request for comment about her description of Spourdalakis’ living situation.
The district attorney’s office ― the same one that called Alex’s killing “cold, calculated and premeditated” ― evidently softened its view over time.
After the two women were sentenced, Botti, Spourdalakis’ attorney, told Chicago’s CBS News Channel 2 that the prosecutor had described in court how, through all the years of Alex’s life, “every door was closed.” Botti said the prosecutor spoke about “the abuse [Alex] dealt with when he was taken to the hospital and all the restraints he was put in.”
The Ruderman report on Alex’s death and others like it was born out of frustration over what the report’s creators see as a disregard for the victims.
“It is abhorrent that a person with a disability is murdered by their parents, children or caregivers every week,” said Jay Ruderman, president of the organization. “This statistic itself is tragic, but what is even more abhorrent is that the journalists covering these murders all too often erase the voice of the person with a disability and occasionally even sympathize with the murderers.”
That sympathy, according to the report, is rooted in a widespread, little-examined notion that disability automatically equates to suffering.
“That’s a big misconception,” Thompson said. “We’re not all suffering and in reality, the most amount of suffering the victims endure is when they are being killed.”
“Let us not obscure the fact,” she said, “that murder is murder.”
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How Murder Victims With Disabilities Get Blamed For Their Own Deaths
Alex Spourdalakis was 14 when his mother and godmother decided to kill him.
The women tried to poison the boy, who had autism, with sleeping pills. When that failed, Dorothy Spourdalakis stabbed her son four times in the chest with a kitchen knife, twice hitting his heart. She slit one of his wrists so deeply she nearly severed his hand, according to court records. Then she handed the knife to Jolanta Agata Skrodzka, who used it to kill the family cat so it wouldn’t have to live in a shelter after their arrests.
A year later, 11-year-old Raashanai Coley, another child in Illinois, died from a stomach rupture after her mother, Nicholette Lawrence, punched her repeatedly. The autopsy revealed scars and old injuries indicating previous physical abuse.
Alex was killed in River Grove in 2013. Raashanai died in Waukegan in 2014. Both were slain by people entrusted to protect them. But the respective outcomes of these first-degree murder cases ― one involving a child with disabilities, the other involving a child without medically documented handicaps ― speak volumes about an insidious bias in the justice system.
Alex’s killers pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, and served three years each before they were sentenced to time served and released. Raashanai’s killer, meanwhile, was convicted of murder and is serving 43 years.
Advocates for the disabled say such disparities are common in a legal system that seems to treat accused killers less seriously when the victim was a person with special needs who depended on the person charged with murder for care.
On average, at least one disabled person is killed each week by a parent or caregiver, according to a Ruderman Family Foundation report that documented more than 200 deaths from 2011 to 2015.
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The study found that taking a life ― something typically not tolerated in society ― is sometimes treated as acceptable in the justice system when the victim had a disability. Killers are commonly portrayed as angelic caretakers who killed out of mercy, or who could no longer bear the burden and snapped. Those perpetrators often face less than vigorous prosecution, the study found.
“The message is that murder is a reasonable response to disability, and courts will treat you lightly if you murder a disabled child, parent or spouse,” David Perry, a disability rights activist and author of the Ruderman report, told The Huffington Post.
Vilissa Thompson, an advocate and licensed master social worker from Winnsboro, South Carolina, said there is an obvious discrepancy in how the law and the public treat parents and caregivers accused of killing someone in their care.
“When someone, especially a child, is killed, it is called a hideous crime, and there is an urgency to punish the person responsible,” said Thompson, a contributor to the Ruderman report who was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, also known as brittle bone disease. “But when it comes to the disabled kids, there is this gross level of excusing that behavior.”
Spourdalakis, then 50, and Skrodzka, then 40, were both charged with first-degree murder in Alex’s slaying.
“The murder was committed in a cold, calculated and premeditated manner,” Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Maureen O’Brien told the Chicago Tribune at the time.
Lawrence, who was 32 when she was arrested, was also charged with first-degree murder in Raashanai’s slaying.
Lake County State’s Attorney Michael Nerheim, according to Chicago’s Daily Herald, called the treatment of the girl “inhumane” and “pure evil.”
Three years later, in December 2016, Spourdalakis and Skrodzka pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, and a judge showed the killers mercy.
“Justice has to have some compassion, and looking at the facts of this case, this was the just result,” Spourdalakis’ defense attorney, Michael Botti, told Chicago’s WLS-TV.
The following month, Lawrence, who pleaded guilty to murder, was sentenced to 43 years in prison by 19th Circuit Court Judge James Booras. It was the near-maximum for the charge. Booras referred to Lawrence as a “monster” and ruled her ineligible for early release. If she outlives her sentence, she will be in her mid-70s when she’s freed.
There also was a big difference in how the media covered the cases. Lawrence was all but labeled a vicious murderer. Spourdalakis and Skrodzka, on the other hand, were portrayed as victims.
WLS-TV reported on the “pain, frustration and fear” leading up to Alex’s slaying. The emotions were attributed not to the teen, but to Spourdalakis and Skrodzka, who were described as being burdened with the care of ��a suburban boy with a severe form of autism.”
Other media outlets suggested the two women were desperate and emotionally broken from providing Alex with round-the-clock care. Some reports suggested the slaying was an act of mercy.
“That’s asinine,” Thompson told HuffPost. “You don’t kill your loved one because you can’t take care of them. Yes, there are stresses, but that does not give you an excuse.”
Alex’s mother said she did not want him in an institution, which she thought would be a form of torture, according to police. The women killed the family cat, authorities said, because Spourdalakis didn’t want authorities to take it to a shelter.
Thompson said there’s a word that describes the women’s actions, and it’s not mercy.
“They should not be looked on with sympathy,” she said. “That’s an abusive mindset. It’s no different than a spouse who says, ‘If I can’t have you no one can.’ Mercy is just an excuse.”
“Yes, there can be stresses caring for someone with a disability,” she went on. “And yes, we need to hold social services accountable in providing assistance. But none of that should give someone an excuse to kill.”
When a crime like this happens, the media often doesn’t put the victim at the center of his or her own story, Perry said.
Whenever Alex was mentioned in the media, he was characterized by his disability more often than as the victim of a horrific crime. Some reports used words like “aggressive” and “violent” to describe him. Details were printed about how he had to be tied to a bed during hospital visits. It was on social media, rather than in published reports, that people who knew Alex had the chance to share the most details about him. They described him as a smart young man who loved balloons, cards, music, nature and the color yellow.
“Everything in the media coverage was about his mom, and some of it was factually wrong,” Perry said. “No one investigated what she said or called anyone from the disability community for balanced coverage. They rushed to say, ‘Well, she must have been really overworked and must not have had any access to services.’”
In the months leading up to Alex’s death, the boy’s mother and godmother participated in a documentary by the Autism Media Channel. They told the filmmakers Alex was neglected by the health care system and was not provided enough outside support.
“She just couldn’t take seeing her son in pain anymore and seeing no future for him, and there was no help for him,” Polly Tommey, of the Autism Media Channel, told WLS-TV in 2014.
Alex’s slaying became the focus of the film, which wound up with the title “Who Killed Alex Spourdalakis?”
The lawyer who defended Alex’s mother also pointed a finger at the system, according to prosecutors.
Perry, an associate professor of history at Dominican University in Illinois and the father of a boy with Down syndrome, said those claims were not based in reality.
“There were concrete documented efforts by the autism community to help [Spourdalakis], and she rejected that,” Perry said. “She wanted her child cured, and when she couldn’t, she resorted to murder.”
In fact, after Alex was killed, a spokesperson for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services told the Chicago Tribune that Alex’s mother had refused “referrals to community-based services ranging from respite to psychological counseling.”
Mary Kay Betz, then executive director of the Autism Society of Illinois, told the Tribune that she too had met with Spourdalakis prior to Alex’s slaying and offered assistance, but “all she wanted was an attorney.”
Tommey, of the Autism Media Channel, told reporters that Alex’s mother and godmother “had absolutely nowhere to go, nowhere to live” and would go from “motel to motel.”
However, according to River Grove police, Spourdalakis and her son lived in the same well-kept River Grove apartment for nearly two decades ― the same apartment where Alex was killed and where Spourdalakis and Skrodzka drugged themselves in an apparent suicide attempt after his death, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Tommey didn’t respond to a request for comment about her description of Spourdalakis’ living situation.
The district attorney’s office ― the same one that called Alex’s killing “cold, calculated and premeditated” ― evidently softened its view over time.
After the two women were sentenced, Botti, Spourdalakis’ attorney, told Chicago’s CBS News Channel 2 that the prosecutor had described in court how, through all the years of Alex’s life, “every door was closed.” Botti said the prosecutor spoke about “the abuse [Alex] dealt with when he was taken to the hospital and all the restraints he was put in.”
The Ruderman report on Alex’s death and others like it was born out of frustration over what the report’s creators see as a disregard for the victims.
“It is abhorrent that a person with a disability is murdered by their parents, children or caregivers every week,” said Jay Ruderman, president of the organization. “This statistic itself is tragic, but what is even more abhorrent is that the journalists covering these murders all too often erase the voice of the person with a disability and occasionally even sympathize with the murderers.”
That sympathy, according to the report, is rooted in a widespread, little-examined notion that disability automatically equates to suffering.
“That’s a big misconception,” Thompson said. “We’re not all suffering and in reality, the most amount of suffering the victims endure is when they are being killed.”
“Let us not obscure the fact,” she said, “that murder is murder.”
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The Illinois Supreme Court on Friday upheld a Democratic-backed ban on assault-style rifles and large-capacity magazines enacted after a deadly mass shooting in Chicago's Highland Park suburb in 2022 that left seven people dead and dozens of others wounded.
The state's high court in a 4-3 vote rejected arguments by a group of plaintiffs led by a Republican state Representative Dan Caulkins, that the ban violated the Illinois Constitution by not applying the law equally to all citizens.
Democratic Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker in a statement called the ruling "a win for advocates, survivors, and families alike because it preserves this nation-leading legislation to combat gun violence and save countless lives."
In January, he signed into law the measure, the Protect Illinois Communities Act, which bans the sale and distribution of many kinds of high-powered semiautomatic "assault weapons," including AK-47 and AR-15 rifles, and large-capacity magazines.
Justice Elizabeth Rochford, a Democrat, wrote that the constitution's equal protection and special legislation clauses did not bar the state's legislature from treating certain citizens differently than others by exempting them from the law.
Those exemptions applied to people who complete firearms training while employed in law enforcement, the military and private security and individuals who already owned the prohibited guns before the ban was enacted.
"The Act attempts to balance public safety against the expertise of the trained professionals and the expectation interests of the grandfathered individuals," Rochford wrote in an opinion that was joined by three of her fellow Democratic justices.
The ruling reversed a lower-court judge's ruling in the plaintiffs' favor. Justices Lisa Holder White and David Overstreet, both Republicans, and Mary Kay O’Brien, a Democrat, dissented.
The plaintiffs also argued the law violated the right to keep and bear arms under the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment. But Rochford said the plaintiffs waived that argument by not raising it at the lower-court level.
That Second Amendment argument is central to separate ongoing federal lawsuits also challenging Illinois' law.
The conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court last year in striking down New York state gun limits on carrying concealed firearms announced a new legal standard requiring firearms restrictions to be "consistent with this nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation."
That ruling has made it more difficult for lower courts to uphold new or existing gun regulations, several of which have been declared unconstitutional.
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How Murder Victims With Disabilities Get Blamed For Their Own Deaths
Alex Spourdalakis was 14 when his mother and godmother decided to kill him.
The women tried to poison the boy, who had autism, with sleeping pills. When that failed, Dorothy Spourdalakis stabbed her son four times in the chest with a kitchen knife, twice hitting his heart. She slit one of his wrists so deeply she nearly severed his hand, according to court records. Then she handed the knife to Jolanta Agata Skrodzka, who used it to kill the family cat so it wouldn’t have to live in a shelter after their arrests.
A year later, 11-year-old Raashanai Coley, another child in Illinois, died from a stomach rupture after her mother, Nicholette Lawrence, punched her repeatedly. The autopsy revealed scars and old injuries indicating previous physical abuse.
Alex was killed in River Grove in 2013. Raashanai died in Waukegan in 2014. Both were slain by people entrusted to protect them. But the respective outcomes of these first-degree murder cases ― one involving a child with disabilities, the other involving a child without medically documented handicaps ― speak volumes about an insidious bias in the justice system.
Alex’s killers pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, and served three years each before they were sentenced to time served and released. Raashanai’s killer, meanwhile, was convicted of murder and is serving 43 years.
Advocates for the disabled say such disparities are common in a legal system that seems to treat accused killers less seriously when the victim was a person with special needs who depended on the person charged with murder for care.
On average, at least one disabled person is killed each week by a parent or caregiver, according to a Ruderman Family Foundation report that documented more than 200 deaths from 2011 to 2015.
The study found that taking a life ― something typically not tolerated in society ― is sometimes treated as acceptable in the justice system when the victim had a disability. Killers are commonly portrayed as angelic caretakers who killed out of mercy, or who could no longer bear the burden and snapped. Those perpetrators often face less than vigorous prosecution, the study found.
“The message is that murder is a reasonable response to disability, and courts will treat you lightly if you murder a disabled child, parent or spouse,” David Perry, a disability rights activist and author of the Ruderman report, told The Huffington Post.
Vilissa Thompson, an advocate and licensed master social worker from Winnsboro, South Carolina, said there is an obvious discrepancy in how the law and the public treat parents and caregivers accused of killing someone in their care.
“When someone, especially a child, is killed, it is called a hideous crime, and there is an urgency to punish the person responsible,” said Thompson, a contributor to the Ruderman report who was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, also known as brittle bone disease. “But when it comes to the disabled kids, there is this gross level of excusing that behavior.”
Spourdalakis, then 50, and Skrodzka, then 40, were both charged with first-degree murder in Alex’s slaying.
“The murder was committed in a cold, calculated and premeditated manner,” Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Maureen O’Brien told the Chicago Tribune at the time.
Lawrence, who was 32 when she was arrested, was also charged with first-degree murder in Raashanai’s slaying.
Lake County State’s Attorney Michael Nerheim, according to Chicago’s Daily Herald, called the treatment of the girl “inhumane” and “pure evil.”
Three years later, in December 2016, Spourdalakis and Skrodzka pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, and a judge showed the killers mercy.
“Justice has to have some compassion, and looking at the facts of this case, this was the just result,” Spourdalakis’ defense attorney, Michael Botti, told Chicago’s WLS-TV.
The following month, Lawrence, who pleaded guilty to murder, was sentenced to 43 years in prison by 19th Circuit Court Judge James Booras. It was the near-maximum for the charge. Booras referred to Lawrence as a “monster” and ruled her ineligible for early release. If she outlives her sentence, she will be in her mid-70s when she’s freed.
There also was a big difference in how the media covered the cases. Lawrence was all but labeled a vicious murderer. Spourdalakis and Skrodzka, on the other hand, were portrayed as victims.
WLS-TV reported on the “pain, frustration and fear” leading up to Alex’s slaying. The emotions were attributed not to the teen, but to Spourdalakis and Skrodzka, who were described as being burdened with the care of “a suburban boy with a severe form of autism.”
Other media outlets suggested the two women were desperate and emotionally broken from providing Alex with round-the-clock care. Some reports suggested the slaying was an act of mercy.
“That’s asinine,” Thompson told HuffPost. “You don’t kill your loved one because you can’t take care of them. Yes, there are stresses, but that does not give you an excuse.”
Alex’s mother said she did not want him in an institution, which she thought would be a form of torture, according to police. The women killed the family cat, authorities said, because Spourdalakis didn’t want authorities to take it to a shelter.
Thompson said there’s a word that describes the women’s actions, and it’s not mercy.
“They should not be looked on with sympathy,” she said. “That’s an abusive mindset. It’s no different than a spouse who says, ‘If I can’t have you no one can.’ Mercy is just an excuse.”
“Yes, there can be stresses caring for someone with a disability,” she went on. “And yes, we need to hold social services accountable in providing assistance. But none of that should give someone an excuse to kill.”
When a crime like this happens, the media often doesn’t put the victim at the center of his or her own story, Perry said.
Whenever Alex was mentioned in the media, he was characterized by his disability more often than as the victim of a horrific crime. Some reports used words like “aggressive” and “violent” to describe him. Details were printed about how he had to be tied to a bed during hospital visits. It was on social media, rather than in published reports, that people who knew Alex had the chance to share the most details about him. They described him as a smart young man who loved balloons, cards, music, nature and the color yellow.
“Everything in the media coverage was about his mom, and some of it was factually wrong,” Perry said. “No one investigated what she said or called anyone from the disability community for balanced coverage. They rushed to say, ‘Well, she must have been really overworked and must not have had any access to services.’”
In the months leading up to Alex’s death, the boy’s mother and godmother participated in a documentary by the Autism Media Channel. They told the filmmakers Alex was neglected by the health care system and was not provided enough outside support.
“She just couldn’t take seeing her son in pain anymore and seeing no future for him, and there was no help for him,” Polly Tommey, of the Autism Media Channel, told WLS-TV in 2014.
Alex’s slaying became the focus of the film, which wound up with the title “Who Killed Alex Spourdalakis?”
The lawyer who defended Alex’s mother also pointed a finger at the system, according to prosecutors.
Perry, an associate professor of history at Dominican University in Illinois and the father of a boy with Down syndrome, said those claims were not based in reality.
“There were concrete documented efforts by the autism community to help [Spourdalakis], and she rejected that,” Perry said. “She wanted her child cured, and when she couldn’t, she resorted to murder.”
In fact, after Alex was killed, a spokesperson for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services told the Chicago Tribune that Alex’s mother had refused “referrals to community-based services ranging from respite to psychological counseling.”
Mary Kay Betz, then executive director of the Autism Society of Illinois, told the Tribune that she too had met with Spourdalakis prior to Alex’s slaying and offered assistance, but “all she wanted was an attorney.”
Tommey, of the Autism Media Channel, told reporters that Alex’s mother and godmother “had absolutely nowhere to go, nowhere to live” and would go from “motel to motel.”
However, according to River Grove police, Spourdalakis and her son lived in the same well-kept River Grove apartment for nearly two decades ― the same apartment where Alex was killed and where Spourdalakis and Skrodzka drugged themselves in an apparent suicide attempt after his death, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Tommey didn’t respond to a request for comment about her description of Spourdalakis’ living situation.
The district attorney’s office ― the same one that called Alex’s killing “cold, calculated and premeditated” ― evidently softened its view over time.
After the two women were sentenced, Botti, Spourdalakis’ attorney, told Chicago’s CBS News Channel 2 that the prosecutor had described in court how, through all the years of Alex’s life, “every door was closed.” Botti said the prosecutor spoke about “the abuse [Alex] dealt with when he was taken to the hospital and all the restraints he was put in.”
The Ruderman report on Alex’s death and others like it was born out of frustration over what the report’s creators see as a disregard for the victims.
“It is abhorrent that a person with a disability is murdered by their parents, children or caregivers every week,” said Jay Ruderman, president of the organization. “This statistic itself is tragic, but what is even more abhorrent is that the journalists covering these murders all too often erase the voice of the person with a disability and occasionally even sympathize with the murderers.”
That sympathy, according to the report, is rooted in a widespread, little-examined notion that disability automatically equates to suffering.
“That’s a big misconception,” Thompson said. “We’re not all suffering and in reality, the most amount of suffering the victims endure is when they are being killed.”
“Let us not obscure the fact,” she said, “that murder is murder.”
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Alex Spourdalakis was 14 when his mother and godmother decided to kill him.
The women tried to poison the boy, who had autism, with sleeping pills. When that failed, Dorothy Spourdalakis stabbed her son four times in the chest with a kitchen knife, twice hitting his heart. She slit one of his wrists so deeply she nearly severed his hand, according to court records. Then she handed the knife to Jolanta Agata Skrodzka, who used it to kill the family cat so it wouldn’t have to live in a shelter after their arrests.
A year later, 11-year-old Raashanai Coley, another child in Illinois, died from a stomach rupture after her mother, Nicholette Lawrence, punched her repeatedly. The autopsy revealed scars and old injuries indicating previous physical abuse.
Alex was killed in River Grove in 2013. Raashanai died in Waukegan in 2014. Both were slain by people entrusted to protect them. But the respective outcomes of these first-degree murder cases ― one involving a child with disabilities, the other involving a child without medically documented handicaps ― speak volumes about an insidious bias in the justice system.
Alex’s killers pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, and served three years each before they were sentenced to time served and released. Raashanai’s killer, meanwhile, was convicted of murder and is serving 43 years.
Advocates for the disabled say such disparities are common in a legal system that seems to treat accused killers less seriously when the victim was a person with special needs who depended on the person charged with murder for care.
On average, at least one disabled person is killed each week by a parent or caregiver, according to a Ruderman Family Foundation report that documented more than 200 deaths from 2011 to 2015.
The study found that taking a life ― something typically not tolerated in society ― is sometimes treated as acceptable in the justice system when the victim had a disability. Killers are commonly portrayed as angelic caretakers who killed out of mercy, or who could no longer bear the burden and snapped. Those perpetrators often face less than vigorous prosecution, the study found.
“The message is that murder is a reasonable response to disability, and courts will treat you lightly if you murder a disabled child, parent or spouse,” David Perry, a disability rights activist and author of the Ruderman report, told The Huffington Post.
Vilissa Thompson, an advocate and licensed master social worker from Winnsboro, South Carolina, said there is an obvious discrepancy in how the law and the public treat parents and caregivers accused of killing someone in their care.
“When someone, especially a child, is killed, it is called a hideous crime, and there is an urgency to punish the person responsible,” said Thompson, a contributor to the Ruderman report who was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, also known as brittle bone disease. “But when it comes to the disabled kids, there is this gross level of excusing that behavior.”
Spourdalakis, then 50, and Skrodzka, then 40, were both charged with first-degree murder in Alex’s slaying.
“The murder was committed in a cold, calculated and premeditated manner,” Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Maureen O’Brien told the Chicago Tribune at the time.
Lawrence, who was 32 when she was arrested, was also charged with first-degree murder in Raashanai’s slaying.
Lake County State’s Attorney Michael Nerheim, according to Chicago’s Daily Herald, called the treatment of the girl “inhumane” and “pure evil.”
Three years later, in December 2016, Spourdalakis and Skrodzka pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, and a judge showed the killers mercy.
“Justice has to have some compassion, and looking at the facts of this case, this was the just result,” Spourdalakis’ defense attorney, Michael Botti, told Chicago’s WLS-TV.
The following month, Lawrence, who pleaded guilty to murder, was sentenced to 43 years in prison by 19th Circuit Court Judge James Booras. It was the near-maximum for the charge. Booras referred to Lawrence as a “monster” and ruled her ineligible for early release. If she outlives her sentence, she will be in her mid-70s when she’s freed.
There also was a big difference in how the media covered the cases. Lawrence was all but labeled a vicious murderer. Spourdalakis and Skrodzka, on the other hand, were portrayed as victims.
WLS-TV reported on the “pain, frustration and fear” leading up to Alex’s slaying. The emotions were attributed not to the teen, but to Spourdalakis and Skrodzka, who were described as being burdened with the care of “a suburban boy with a severe form of autism.”
Other media outlets suggested the two women were desperate and emotionally broken from providing Alex with round-the-clock care. Some reports suggested the slaying was an act of mercy.
“That’s asinine,” Thompson told HuffPost. “You don’t kill your loved one because you can’t take care of them. Yes, there are stresses, but that does not give you an excuse.”
Alex’s mother said she did not want him in an institution, which she thought would be a form of torture, according to police. The women killed the family cat, authorities said, because Spourdalakis didn’t want authorities to take it to a shelter.
Thompson said there’s a word that describes the women’s actions, and it’s not mercy.
“They should not be looked on with sympathy,” she said. “That’s an abusive mindset. It’s no different than a spouse who says, ‘If I can’t have you no one can.’ Mercy is just an excuse.”
“Yes, there can be stresses caring for someone with a disability,” she went on. “And yes, we need to hold social services accountable in providing assistance. But none of that should give someone an excuse to kill.”
When a crime like this happens, the media often doesn’t put the victim at the center of his or her own story, Perry said.
Whenever Alex was mentioned in the media, he was characterized by his disability more often than as the victim of a horrific crime. Some reports used words like “aggressive” and “violent” to describe him. Details were printed about how he had to be tied to a bed during hospital visits. It was on social media, rather than in published reports, that people who knew Alex had the chance to share the most details about him. They described him as a smart young man who loved balloons, cards, music, nature and the color yellow.
“Everything in the media coverage was about his mom, and some of it was factually wrong,” Perry said. “No one investigated what she said or called anyone from the disability community for balanced coverage. They rushed to say, ‘Well, she must have been really overworked and must not have had any access to services.’”
In the months leading up to Alex’s death, the boy’s mother and godmother participated in a documentary by the Autism Media Channel. They told the filmmakers Alex was neglected by the health care system and was not provided enough outside support.
“She just couldn’t take seeing her son in pain anymore and seeing no future for him, and there was no help for him,” Polly Tommey, of the Autism Media Channel, told WLS-TV in 2014.
Alex’s slaying became the focus of the film, which wound up with the title “Who Killed Alex Spourdalakis?”
The lawyer who defended Alex’s mother also pointed a finger at the system, according to prosecutors.
Perry, an associate professor of history at Dominican University in Illinois and the father of a boy with Down syndrome, said those claims were not based in reality.
“There were concrete documented efforts by the autism community to help [Spourdalakis], and she rejected that,” Perry said. “She wanted her child cured, and when she couldn’t, she resorted to murder.”
In fact, after Alex was killed, a spokesperson for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services told the Chicago Tribune that Alex’s mother had refused “referrals to community-based services ranging from respite to psychological counseling.”
Mary Kay Betz, then executive director of the Autism Society of Illinois, told the Tribune that she too had met with Spourdalakis prior to Alex’s slaying and offered assistance, but “all she wanted was an attorney.”
Tommey, of the Autism Media Channel, told reporters that Alex’s mother and godmother “had absolutely nowhere to go, nowhere to live” and would go from “motel to motel.”
However, according to River Grove police, Spourdalakis and her son lived in the same well-kept River Grove apartment for nearly two decades ― the same apartment where Alex was killed and where Spourdalakis and Skrodzka drugged themselves in an apparent suicide attempt after his death, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Tommey didn’t respond to a request for comment about her description of Spourdalakis’ living situation.
The district attorney’s office ― the same one that called Alex’s killing “cold, calculated and premeditated” ― evidently softened its view over time.
After the two women were sentenced, Botti, Spourdalakis’ attorney, told Chicago’s CBS News Channel 2 that the prosecutor had described in court how, through all the years of Alex’s life, “every door was closed.” Botti said the prosecutor spoke about “the abuse [Alex] dealt with when he was taken to the hospital and all the restraints he was put in.”
The Ruderman report on Alex’s death and others like it was born out of frustration over what the report’s creators see as a disregard for the victims.
“It is abhorrent that a person with a disability is murdered by their parents, children or caregivers every week,” said Jay Ruderman, president of the organization. “This statistic itself is tragic, but what is even more abhorrent is that the journalists covering these murders all too often erase the voice of the person with a disability and occasionally even sympathize with the murderers.”
That sympathy, according to the report, is rooted in a widespread, little-examined notion that disability automatically equates to suffering.
“That’s a big misconception,” Thompson said. “We’re not all suffering and in reality, the most amount of suffering the victims endure is when they are being killed.”
“Let us not obscure the fact,” she said, “that murder is murder.”
Murders by Caregivers by David Lohr on Scribd
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