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PEOPLE v. CHRISTENSEN

No. 58395.

102 Ill.2d 321 (1984)

465 N.E.2d 93

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. DOUGLAS CHRISTENSEN, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed June 6, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel D. Yuhas, Deputy Defender, and Jonathan Hale, Assistant Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, of Springfield, for appellant.

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield (Mark L. Rotert and Terence M. Madsen, Assistant Attorneys General, and Matthew Monathan, law student, of Chicago, of counsel), for the People.

Appellate court reversed; circuit court affirmed.

JUSTICE SIMON delivered the opinion of the court:

On April 16, 1982, the circuit court of Woodford County dismissed a 15-count indictment against the defendant, Douglas Christensen, because he had been denied a speedy trial under both section 103-5 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 (the speedy-trial statute) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 38, par. 103-5) and...

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