IN RE McDONALD

No. 4-85-0713.

144 Ill. App.3d 1082 (1986)

495 N.E.2d 78

In re TAMMY McDONALD, a Minor (The People of the State of Illinois, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Joyce Cohen, Respondent-Appellant).

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fourth District.

Opinion filed June 19, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary M. Neville and William Q. Martin, Jr., both of Dwight, for appellant.

Donald D. Bernardi, State's Attorney, of Pontiac (Kenneth R. Boyle, Robert J. Biderman, and Monroe D. McWard, all of State's Attorneys Appellate Service Commission, of counsel), for appellee.

James A. Casson, of Law Offices of Sidney E. Smith, of Pontiac, guardian ad litem.


Judgment affirmed.

JUSTICE GREEN delivered the opinion of the court:

In this juvenile-neglect proceeding, the propriety of the dispositional order turns upon the effect to be given to one ruling made by the trial court at the dispositional hearing held pursuant to section 5-1 of the Juvenile Court Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 37, par. 705-1). Over objection of the respondent custodial mother, the trial court took judicial notice of the evidence in a prior...

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