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PEOPLE v. JIHAN

No. 66570.

127 Ill.2d 379 (1989)

537 N.E.2d 751

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. MARGARET JIHAN, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed March 29, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield, and John R. Clemons, State's Attorney, of Murphysboro (Robert Ruiz, Solicitor General, and Terence M. Madsen and Michael J. Singer, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, and Kenneth R. Boyle, Stephen E. Norris and Ellen Eder Irish, of the Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, of Mt. Vernon, of counsel), for the People.

Howard B. Eisenberg, of Carbondale, for appellee.

Penney L. Fillmer, of West Chicago, and Linda Irenegreene, for amici curiae Midwives Alliance of North America and Illinois Alliance of Midwives.

Judgment affirmed.

JUSTICE CLARK delivered the opinion of the court:

The question presented by this appeal is whether provisions of the now repealed Illinois Medical Practice Act (the Act) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 111, par. 4401 et seq.), which prohibited the unlicensed practice of midwifery, were unconstitutionally vague under the due process clauses of the United States and Illinois Constitutions.

In 1986, appellee, Margaret Jihan, was convicted...

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