PEOPLE EX REL. HILL v. McGINNIS

No. 3-90-0791.

587 N.E.2d 44 (1992)

224 Ill. App.3d 658

167 Ill.Dec. 162

PEOPLE ex rel. Jesse HILL, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Kenneth McGINNIS, Director of the Illinois Department of Corrections, and Thomas P. Roth, Warden of the Stateville Correctional Center, Respondents-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Third District.

Rehearing Denied March 6, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark D. Fisher, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Ottawa, for Jesse Hill.

Rosalyn Kaplan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, for Kenneth L. McGinnis.


Justice SLATER delivered the opinion of the court:

The petitioner, Jesse Hill, filed a habeas corpus petition seeking the reinstatement of good-time credit and his release from prison. The State filed a motion to dismiss for failure to state a cause of action. The petitioner appeals the order granting the State's motion. We reverse in part and remand.

The record shows that on August 8, 1982, the petitioner began serving a nine-year sentence for armed...

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