PEOPLE v. UNDERWOOD

No. 81-1016.

111 Ill. App.3d 509 (1982)

444 N.E.2d 603

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ROBERT UNDERWOOD, Defendant-Appellee.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District (3rd Division).

Opinion filed December 22, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard M. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Michael E. Shabat, Kevin Sweeney, and Gregory J. Ellis, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Steven Clark and Martin Carlson, both of State Appellate Defender's Office, of Chicago, for appellee.


Reversed and remanded.

PRESIDING JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, Robert Underwood, who had been charged by information with burglary, was adjudicated unfit to stand trial and committed to the Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities (Department) on June 21, 1979. His adjudication of incompetence tolled the running of the speedy-trial statute (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 38, par. 103-5). The question raised by this...

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