HANRAHAN v. WILLIAMS

No. 78357.

673 N.E.2d 251 (1996)

174 Ill.2d 268

220 Ill.Dec. 339

Homer E. HANRAHAN, Appellee, v. James K. WILLIAMS et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing Denied December 2, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roland W. Burris and James E. Ryan, Attorneys General, Springfield (Rosalyn B. Kaplan and Barbara A. Preiner, Solicitors General, and Daniel N. Malato, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, of counsel), for appellants.

Locke E. Bowman and Kathleen M. Banar, Chicago, and Ross Brooks, Conor McAuliffe and Maurin McBroom, law students, for appellee.

Cynthia Grant Bowman, Amanda Clayman and Martha Conlin, Chicago, for amici curiae American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois et al.


Justice MILLER delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff, Homer E. Hanrahan, filed a second-amended complaint in the circuit court of Lee County against defendants, the Illinois Prisoner Review Board and its individual members (collectively, the Board), challenging the denial of his parole. In count III, Hanrahan sought the issuance of a common law writ of certiorari to obtain review of the Board's June 1993 decision to deny him parole. The circuit court...

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