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PEOPLE v. ECKHARDT

No. 66066.

127 Ill.2d 146 (1989)

535 N.E.2d 847

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. CHARLES ECKHARDT, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed February 22, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Richard M. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Inge Fryklund and James S. Veldman, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

No appearance for appellee.

Reversed and remanded.

JUSTICE RYAN delivered the opinion of the court:

This is a direct appeal brought by the State from a ruling entered in the circuit court of Cook County which held that section 5-6-1(d) of the Unified Code of Corrections (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 38, par. 1005-6-1(d)) violates equal protection guarantees and is, therefore, unconstitutional. Because we find that this section of the Unified Code satisfies constitutional requirements, we...

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