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PEOPLE v. LANG

Nos. 51051, 51148 cons.

76 Ill.2d 311 (1979)

391 N.E.2d 350

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. DONALD LANG, Appellant. — (Julius Lang, Conservator, Appellant, v. Robert A. DeVito, Director of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, Appellee.)

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied June 29, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Doherty, Public Defender, of Chicago (Nancy M. Joslyn, Kenneth Fletcher, and Donald Paull, Assistant Public Defenders, of counsel), for appellant Donald Lang.

Mark B. Epstein, of Epstein & Kesselman, of Chicago, for appellant Julius Lang, Conservator.

Bernard Carey, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Paul P. Biebel, Jr., Henry A. Hauser, and Randye A. Kogan, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield (Alan E. Grischke, William J. Fitzpatrick, and Christine A. Bremer, Special Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago), for the Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities.

Appellate court affirmed in part and reversed in part; cause remanded.

MR. JUSTICE RYAN delivered the opinion of the court:

For 14 years the State has been concerned with what to do with Donald Lang, an illiterate deaf mute who has virtually no ability to communicate with other people in any recognized language system. Notwithstanding this severe handicap, Lang has twice been charged with murder, and the State insists that he poses an extreme danger to society...

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