PEOPLE v. HICKS

Nos. 58140, 58186 cons.

101 Ill.2d 366 (1984)

462 N.E.2d 473

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant and Appellee, v. JAMES HICKS, JR., Appellee and Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed April 4, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Edward Petka, State's Attorney, of Joliet (Mark L. Rotert, Marcia L. Friedl, and Michael B. Weinstein, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, and John X. Breslin and Kenneth A. Wilhelm, of the State's Attorneys Appellate Service Commission, of Ottawa, of counsel), for the People.

Robert J. Agostinelli, Deputy Defender, and Gary Hicks, Assistant Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, of Ottawa, for appellee.


Appellate court affirmed in part and reversed in part; circuit court affirmed.

JUSTICE UNDERWOOD delivered the opinion of the court:

The charges involved in this criminal case originated with the filing of a delinquency petition in the circuit court of Will County against 15-year-old James Hicks, Jr. The matter was subsequently transferred to the adult division for prosecution of Hicks as an adult (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 37, par. 702-7(3)), and he was indicted...

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