IN INTEREST OF J.E.

No. 1-95-1271.

668 N.E.2d 1052 (1996)

282 Ill. App.3d 794

218 Ill.Dec. 220

In the Interest of J.E., a minor. The People of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. J.E., a minor, Defendant-Appellee.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, First Division.

July 15, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack O'Malley, State's Attorney, County of Cook (Renee Goldfarb, Peter D. Fischer, Robert Robertson, Asst. State's Attorneys, of counsel), for appellant.

Steven A. Drizin, Thomas F. Geraghty, Northwestern University Legal Clinic, Chicago, for appellee.


Justice WOLFSON delivered the opinion of the court:

This case requires us to examine a statutory procedure that routes a juvenile offender into the adult criminal justice system.

The State contends a finding of probable cause at a minor's detention hearing, without more, creates a rebuttable presumption that the minor's case should be transferred from the juvenile court to the criminal court.

In this case, the trial judge at the transfer hearing refused...

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