Reversed and remanded.
JUSTICE WEBBER delivered the opinion of the court:
This appeal presents a narrow question, but one which has not yet been answered in this State: whether a trial court, after having ordered a fitness hearing for a juvenile, may afterwards proceed to an adjudicatory hearing without ruling on the juvenile's fitness to stand trial. We hold that it cannot and reverse.
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