PEOPLE v. VANCE

No. 50675.

76 Ill.2d 171 (1979)

390 N.E.2d 867

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. JEFFREY VANCE, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed May 24, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Ronald C. Dozier, State's Attorney, of Bloomington (Donald B. Mackay, Melbourne A. Noel, Jr., and Timothy B. Newitt, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, and James E. Hinterlong and John X. Breslin, of the State's Attorneys Appellate Service Commission, of Ottawa, of counsel), for the People.

Marc Barnett, Marvin J. Glass, and Charles K. Piet, of Barnett, Ettinger, Glass, Berkson & Braverman, Ltd., of Chicago, for appellee.


Reversed and remanded.

MR. JUSTICE UNDERWOOD delivered the opinion of the court:

On December 4, 1974, an indictment was returned in the circuit court of McLean County charging Jeffrey M. Vance, defendant herein, with the unlawful delivery of less than 30 grams of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). Following allowance, in January 1975, of defendant's motion for substitution of judges because of the alleged prejudice of the original trial judge, the case was...

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