On July 18, 2023 the Illinois Supreme Court handed down its long anticipated ruling in Rowe v. Raoul, 2023 IL 129248. Siding with the Appellants in this matter, the Illinois Supreme Court has rejected the constitutional objections to Public Acts 101-652 and 102-1104. Cash bail will be eliminated in Illinois effective…
The Jencks Act The origins of this Act are in a 1957 U.S. Supreme Court case called Jencks v. United States, 353 U.S. 657 (1957). Clinton Jencks, a labor activist and union leader, was charged and convicted of filing a false “Affidavit of Non-Communist Union Officer” with the National Labor…
On December 31, 2022 the Illinois Supreme Court stayed implementation of the Pretrial Fairness Act pending appeal from the Kankakee Circuit Court Order entered on December 28 which severed those portions of the Safe-T Act. On October 31, the Illinois Supreme Court entered an order consolidating all of the pending…
If you have ever heard someone in central Illinois complain about the State dismissing a criminal complaint against them and then still seizing their property on basis that the property was illegally obtained – believe them. It happens, or it used to happen, with some regularity before the law was…
The drug addiction epidemic is one of the biggest health problems our country is facing. As criminal defense lawyers, we have a front row view of how this epidemic is affecting the community here in Sangamon County, Morgan County, Montgomery County, Macon County, Menard County and all of the surrounding…