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NEWSOME v. HUGHES

No. 4-84-0193.

131 Ill. App.3d 872 (1985)

476 N.E.2d 478

BENNY NEWSOME, Petitioner-Appellee, v. C.E. (GENE) HUGHES, Sheriff of Vermilion County, et al., Respondents-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fourth District.

Opinion filed March 27, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield (Jill Wine-Banks, Solicitor General, and Mark L. Rotert and Terence M. Madsen, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, of counsel), for appellants.

Robert E. McIntire, Assistant Public Defender, of Danville, for appellee.

Judgment reversed.

JUSTICE TRAPP delivered the opinion of the court:

In this appeal, Michael P. Lane, Director of the Illinois Department of Corrections, and C.E. Hughes, sheriff of Vermilion County, challenge a final order granting Benny Newsome's petition for writ of habeas corpus. We reverse.

Newsome, while serving a period of mandatory supervised release, was charged with unlawful use of weapons, theft of a firearm, and theft with a prior...

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