PEOPLE v. TANZY

No. 57264.

99 Ill.2d 19 (1983)

457 N.E.2d 390

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. SHIRLEY TANZY, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed December 1, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Agostinelli, Deputy Defender, and Sue Augustus, Assistant Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, of Ottawa, for appellant.

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield (Michael B. Weinstein, Jack Donatelli, and James E. Fitzgerald, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, of counsel), for the People.


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

JUSTICE WARD delivered the opinion of the court:

The question in this appeal is whether a defendant acquitted by reason of insanity and thereafter committed to the Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities (the Department) under an indeterminate sentence is entitled to deduction of compensatory good-time credits under administrative regulations, in...

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