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PEOPLE v. LAWTON

No. 95802.

818 N.E.2d 326 (2004)

212 Ill.2d 285

288 Ill.Dec. 638

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Gary LAWTON, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

October 7, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. Leonard, Mt. Sterling, for appellant.

Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Frank McCartney, State's Attorney, Pittsfield (Gary Feinerman, Solicitor General, and Linda D. Woloshin and Jay Paul Hoffmann, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for the People.

Justice RARICK delivered the opinion of the court:

Gary Lawton was declared a sexually dangerous person and committed to the custody of the Department of Corrections pursuant to the Sexually Dangerous Persons Act (725 ILCS 205/0.01 et seq. (West 2002)). He subsequently petitioned the circuit court of Pike County to obtain relief from that judgment pursuant to section 2-1401 of the Code of Civil Procedure (735 ILCS 5/2-1401 (West 2002)). As grounds for his petition...

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