PEOPLE EX REL. RICE v. CUNNINGHAM

No. 47402.

61 Ill.2d 353 (1975)

336 N.E.2d 1

THE PEOPLE ex rel. ROBERT H. RICE, State's Attorney, Petitioner, v. JOSEPH F. CUNNINGHAM et al. Judges, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed September 29, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Robert H. Rice, State's Attorney, of Belleville, and James B. Zagel and Jayne A. Carr, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, and Clyde L. Kuehn, Assistant State's Attorney, of Belleville, and Charles D. Sheehy, Jr., Edward N. Morris, Christine M. Drucker, Robert L. Janes, Robert Anderson, Martin P. Moltz, Michael Weinstein, and Robert Perry, State's Attorneys Association Appellate Assistance Service, of Elgin, for petitioner.

Theodore A. Gottfried, Stephen P. Hurley, Robert E. Davison, Michael J. Rosborough, Joshua Sachs, and Richard Wilson, all of Office of State Appellate Defender, of Mt. Vernon, for respondents.

John T. Moran, Jr., Robert P. Isaacson, and Kathryn J. Kuhlen, for amicus curiae the Public Defender of Cook County.


Writ denied.

MR. JUSTICE KLUCZYNSKI delivered the opinion of the court:

We granted leave to petitioner, the State's Attorney of St. Clair County (hereinafter the State), to file an original action for mandamus (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 110A, par. 381 (a)) seeking to compel respondents, three judges of the Twentieth Judicial Circuit, to convene as a panel and hear evidence on the circumstances involved in...

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