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PEOPLE v. WILLIAMS

No. 65895.

124 Ill.2d 300 (1988)

529 N.E.2d 558

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. VINCENT WILLIAMS, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed September 22, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Richard M. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Terence M. Madsen, Assistant Attorney General, of Chicago, and Kenneth T. McCurry, Vickie Voukidis, Inge Fryklund and Patricia Y. Brown, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for appellant.

Randolph N. Stone, Public Defender, of Chicago (Karen E. Tietz and Ronald P. Alwin, Assistant Public Defenders, of counsel), for appellee.

Reversed and remanded.

JUSTICE RYAN delivered the opinion of the court:

This is a direct appeal by the State from a ruling by a judge of the circuit court of Cook County holding section 114-5(c) of the recently enacted substitution-of-judge statute unconstitutional (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 38, par. 114-5(c) (as amended, effective July 1, 1987)). The statute provides:

"(c) Within 10 days after a cause has been placed on the trial call of a judge...

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