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PEOPLE v. TORRES

No. 1-95-3670.

682 N.E.2d 261 (1997)

289 Ill. App.3d 513

224 Ill.Dec. 700

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Porfirio TORRES, Defendant-Appellee.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Third Division.

June 25, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack O'Malley, State's Attorney of Cook County, Chicago (Renee Goldfarb and Joan F. Frazier, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Rita A. Fry, Public Defender of Cook County, Chicago (Suzanne A. Isaacson, Assistant Public Defender, of counsel), for Defendant-Appellee.

Justice CAHILL delivered the opinion of the court:

We review dismissal of a criminal information charging defendant, Porfirio Torres, with delivery of cocaine. The information was filed on January 13, 1987, and dismissed over eight years later on September 11,1995. For much of that time Torres was in Mexico. The trial court found that the State failed to provide Torres a speedy trial as required by the Illinois and United States Constitutions, and failed to comply...

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