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PEOPLE v. LANG

Nos. 77-1541, 78-250 cons.

62 Ill. App.3d 688 (1978)

378 N.E.2d 1106

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. DONALD LANG, Defendant-Appellant. — (ROBERT A. deVITO, M.D., Director, Illinois Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, Respondent-Appellant.)

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District (2nd Division).

Rehearing denied August 1, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Doherty, Public Defender, and Epstein & Kesselman, both of Chicago (Nancy M. Joslyn, Kenneth L. Fletcher, and Donald Paull, Assistant Public Defenders, and Mark B. Epstein, of counsel), for appellant Donald Lang.

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Chicago (William J. Fitzpatrick, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel), for appellant Robert A. deVito, M.D.

Bernard Carey, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Michael E. Shabat and Timothy Szwed, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Affirmed in part, reversed in part and vacated in part.

Mr. JUSTICE DOWNING delivered the opinion of the court:

This is yet another case affecting the deaf-mute, Donald Lang (defendant), who until quite recently was never trained to communicate in any recognized language system. (See People v. Lang (1967), 37 Ill.2d 75, 224 N.E.2d 838; People ex rel. Myers v. Briggs (1970...

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