IN RE DETENTION OF BOLTON

No. 4-02-0515.

800 N.E.2d 128 (2003)

343 Ill. App.3d 1223

279 Ill.Dec. 286

In re the DETENTION OF Paul B. BOLTON (The People of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Paul B. Bolton, Defendant-Appellant).

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District.

November 13, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel B. Kennedy (Court-appointed), Champaign, for Paul B. Bolton.

Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, William L. Browers, Anne S. Bagby, Lisa Anne Hoffman, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, for the People.


Justice COOK delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, Paul B. Bolton, appeals an April 16, 2002, jury verdict finding him to be a sexually violent person pursuant to Illinois's Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act (Act) (725 ILCS 207/1 through 99 (West 2000)). We reverse and remand.

I. BACKGROUND

On April 7, 1994, defendant pleaded guilty to criminal sexual assault (720 ILCS 5/12-13(b) (West 1994)), a Class X felony,

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