Overview
- Judge Joanne Rosado accepted Piere Thorne’s guilty plea to aggravated battery causing great bodily harm for a December 2022 Loop attack.
- Court records show a four-year sentence was satisfied through 752 days of time served and Illinois’ standard 50% credit.
- Prosecutors said the 53-year-old victim was struck from behind with a metal object around 9:45 a.m. on December 8, 2022, in the 100 block of West Madison Street.
- The victim lost multiple teeth, suffered several facial and jaw fractures, required reconstructive surgeries, and was left permanently disfigured, according to prosecutors.
- Investigators matched CPD surveillance images to Secretary of State records and a witness later identified Thorne in a photo lineup; prosecutors cited 57 prior arrests by age 30.