PEOPLE v. MASTERSON

No. 93579.

798 N.E.2d 735 (2003)

207 Ill.2d 305

278 Ill.Dec. 351

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. James MASTERSON, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

October 2, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James K. Leven, Chicago, for appellant.

Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (Renee Goldfarb, Theodore Fotios Burtzos, Susan Schierl Sullivan and Mary L. Boland, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.


Justice RARICK delivered the opinion of the court:

Respondent, James Masterson, was charged with two counts of attempted aggravated criminal sexual assault and two counts of indecent solicitation of a child. During the pendency of the criminal charges, the State instituted civil commitment proceedings, seeking to have respondent declared a sexually dangerous person as that term is defined in section 1.01 of the Sexually...

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