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PEOPLE EX REL. HANRAHAN v. WILSON

No. 43179.

48 Ill.2d 30 (1971)

268 N.E.2d 23

THE PEOPLE ex rel. Edward V. Hanrahan, State's Attorney, Petitioner, v. MINOR K. WILSON, Circuit Judge, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed March 16, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

EDWARD V. HANRAHAN, State's Attorney, of Chicago, (ROBERT A. NOVELLE and ARTHUR L. BELKIND, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel,) for petitioner.

GERALD W. GETTY, Public Defender, of Chicago, (SUZANNE M. KOHUT and JAMES J. DOHERTY, Assistant Public Defenders, of counsel,) for respondent.

Writ awarded.

Mr. JUSTICE WARD delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an original proceeding for mandamus brought by the State's Attorney of Cook County to compel the respondent, one of the judges of the circuit court of Cook County, to expunge an order entered in a cause pending in that court by which probation was granted to a defendant who had been convicted of possession of heroin. It is the petitioner's contention that because the defendant...

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