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PEOPLE EX REL. CAREY v. POWER

No. 46868.

59 Ill.2d 569 (1975)

322 N.E.2d 476

THE PEOPLE ex rel. BERNARD CAREY, State's Attorney, Petitioner, v. JOSEPH POWER, Judge, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed January 21, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard Carey, State's Attorney, of Chicago (James B. Haddad, First Assistant State's Attorney, of counsel), for petitioner.

James J. Doherty, of Chicago, for respondent.

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Chicago (James B. Zagel and John Patrick Healy, Assistant Attorneys General, of counsel), amicus curiae.

Frank Carrington and Daniel B. Hales, both of Evanston (Fred E. Inbau, and James P. Economos of Economos and Alexander, Ltd., all of Chicago, of counsel), for amici curiae Americans for Effective Law Enforcement, Inc., and Illinois Chapter of Americans for Effective Law Enforcement, Inc.

Stephen A. Schiller, Executive Director, Chicago Crime Commission, of Chicago (John Beal, Associate Director, of counsel), for amicus curiae Chicago Crime Commission.

Writ denied.

MR. JUSTICE DAVIS delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an original action seeking a writ of mandamus which would direct the presiding judge of the criminal division of the circuit court of Cook County to impanel a second regular grand jury each month. We have taken the respondent's motion for dismissal of the petition for consideration with the request for mandamus.

On July 3, 1974, Bernard Carey, State's Attorney...

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