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IN RE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR

No. 66484.

126 Ill.2d 208 (1988)

533 N.E.2d 911

In re SPECIAL PROSECUTOR (Jerome Gholson, Appellee, v. Alan C. Downen, State's Attorney of Hamilton County, Appellant).

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed December 21, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Alan C. Downen, State's Attorney, of McLeansboro (Terry Madsen, Assistant Attorney General, of Chicago, and Kenneth R. Boyle and Stephen E. Norris, of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, of Mt. Vernon, of counsel), for appellant.

Clyde L. Kuehn, of Kuehn & Rhein, of Belleville, for appellee.

John Baricevic, of Belleville, for amicus curiae Illinois State's Attorneys Association.

Judgments vacated; cause remanded.

PER CURIAM:

The issues in this case, concerning section 6 of "An Act in regard to attorneys general and state's attorneys" (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 14, par. 6), have become moot. The appellant in this case, Alan C. Downen, brought this appeal in his "official capacity as State's Attorney of Hamilton County." Alan C. Downen is no longer State's Attorney of Hamilton County. Since...

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