After the defendant, age 15, was tried as an adult based on the Juvenile Court Act’s automatic transfer provision, the act was amended after the jury’s verdict but prior to the court’s sentencing to no longer automatically apply to the defendant, the amendment applies to the defendant’s case as to the sentence, not the verdict, the verdict being the final judgment, meaning the case was still pending at the time of the amendment.The 1st District Appellate Court reversed and remanded a decision from …