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…
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…
On June 27 of this year, the United States Supreme Court took another step toward erasing drivers’ constitutional right against warrantless searches and seizures. In Mitchell v. Wisconsin, 588 U.S. _____(2019), a plurality of the Court issued an opinion which created a whole new category of “exigent circumstances” searches. Perhaps…
DUI is one of the most common criminal offenses we see. DUI arrest knows no socio-economic boundaries and can have a serious impact on the life of those who are found to guilty. In fact, even if the individual is not guilty of the crime the suspension of his/her license…
We are criminal defense attorneys and DUI lawyers located in Springfield, Illinois and serve clients all over central Illinois. Frequently we have clients who have never needed the services of an attorney before or who feel that they have been under-served by an attorney they have had in the past. …
Traffic tickets. Almost all of us have been pulled over at one time or another for some alleged traffic violation and ended up with a traffic ticket. For some people, what starts as a routine stop for a minor traffic violation ends up becoming an arrest for a more serious…