IN RE BEASLEY

Nos. 48351, 48389.

66 Ill.2d 385 (1977)

362 N.E.2d 1024

In re SHAWN BEASLEY, a Minor, Appellant (The People of the State of Illinois, Appellee). — In re ROBERT CHATMAN, a Minor, Appellee (The People of the State of Illinois, Appellant). — In re DANIEL BUTLER, a Minor, Appellee (The People of the State of Illinois, Appellant).

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied May 26, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Doherty, Public Defender, and David Hirsch-boeck, of Chicago (Frances Sowa, Donald S. Honchell, John Thomas Moran, Assistant Public Defenders, of counsel), for appellant Shawn Beasley and appellees Robert Chatman and Daniel Butler.

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Bernard Carey, State's Attorney, of Chicago (James B. Zagel and Jayne A. Carr, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, and Laurence J. Bolon and Kevin Sweeney, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Theodore A. Gottfried, State Appellate Defender, of Springfield (Robert Agostinelli, Deputy Defender, and Verlin R. Meinz, Assistant Defender, of the office of the State Appellate Defender, of Ottawa, and Robert Davison, of the office of the State Appellate Defender, of Springfield, of counsel), amicus curiae.


Judgment affirmed. Appellate court reversed; circuit court affirmed.

MR. JUSTICE RYAN delivered the opinion of the court:

This case involves three proceedings in the circuit court of Cook County under the Juvenile Court Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 37, par. 701-1 et seq.). In each case the minor respondent admitted the allegations of the delinquency petition which charged that he had committed a crime. Each minor was adjudged to be a delinquent

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