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IN RE J.W.

Nos. 54256, 54636.

87 Ill.2d 56 (1981)

429 N.E.2d 501

In re J.W., a Minor, Appellee (The People of the State of Illinois, Appellant). In re LOWELL CHATMAN, a Minor, Appellee (The People of the State of Illinois, Appellant).

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed November 20, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tyrone C. Fahner, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Edward Keefe and James T. Teros, State's Attorneys, of Rock Island (Herbert Lee Caplan, Melbourne A. Noel, Jr., Thomas E. Holum, and Neal B. Goodfriend, Assistant Attorneys General, and Jay D. Stein, law student, of Chicago, and John X. Breslin, of the State's Attorneys Appellate Service Commission, of Ottawa, of counsel), for the People.

Robert Agostinelli, Deputy Defender, and Stephen Omolecki, Assistant Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, of Ottawa, for appellee.

Tyrone C. Fahner, Attorney General of Springfield, and Richard M. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Melbourne A. Noel, Jr., and Thomas E. Holum, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, and Michael E. Shabat, Stephen Y. Brodhay, and Marcia B. Orr, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Percival Harmon, of Washington, Kennon, Hunter & Samuels, of Chicago, for appellee.

Appellate court vacated; circuit court reversed; cause remanded. Order reversed; cause remanded.

MR. JUSTICE SIMON delivered the opinion of the court:

After finding Lowell Chatman, appellee in cause No. 54636, to be a delinquent minor, the circuit court of Cook County allowed his motion in arrest of judgment, deciding that it lacked jurisdiction. We permitted the State to appeal directly to this court under Rule 302(b) (73 Ill.2d R. 302(b)).

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