The PEOPLE ex rel. Lisa MADIGAN, Attorney General of Illinois, et al., Petitioners,
v.
Donald N. SNYDER, Jr., Director of Corrections, et al., Respondents.
Supreme Court of Illinois.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
January 23, 2004.
January 23, 2004.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield (Gary Feinerman, Solicitor General, Barry Gross, Chief Deputy Attorney General, and Mary Beth Burns and Lisa Anne Hoffman, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for petitioners.
Frank Cicero, Jr., Michelle H. Browdy, Douglas G. Smith and Leonid Feller, of Kirkland & Ellis, L.L.P., and David A. Strauss, Special Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, for respondents Donald N. Snyder, Jr., et al.
Charles Schiedel, Deputy Defender, Springfield, and Steven Clark, Assistant Defender, Chicago, both of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, for respondents Robert Lee Evans, Jr., Roger Collins and William Bracy.
Charles Hoffman, Assistant Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago, for respondents Ronald Alvine, Julius Kuntu and Martin Woolley.
Kim Robert Fawcett, Assistant Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago, for respondent Eric Daniels.
Steve Clark, Assistant Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago, for respondent Christopher Davis.
Jeffrey M. Howard, Assistant Cook County Public Defender, Chicago, for respondent Tyrone Fuller.
Frederick F. Cohn, Chicago, for respondent Delbert Heard.
John L. Stainthorp, Chicago, for respondent Renaldo Hudson.
Kathryn A. Saltmarsh, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, Springfield, for respondent Maurice King.
Joshua Sachs, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago, for respondent Eric Lee.
J. Samuel Tenenbaum, Matthew J. O'Hara and John L. Hayes, of Sachnoff & Weaver, Ltd., and Thomas F. Geraghty, Chicago, for respondent Samuel Morgan.
Allen H. Andrews III, Assistant Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, Springfield, for respondent Richard Morris.
Terri L. Mascherin, Jennifer B. Salvatore and Jason J. Green, of Jenner & Block, L.L.C., Chicago, for respondent Willie Thompkins, Jr.
Charles Schiedel, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, Springfield, for respondent Marlon Watford.
James Gomric, of O'Gara & Gomric, P.C., Belleville, for respondent Bobby 0. Williams.
Locke E. Bowman and Lawrence C. Marshall, Chicago, and Kathryn A. Saltmarsh, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, Springfield, for respondent Elton Williams.
Gary Ravitz and Eric S. Palles, of Ravitz & Palles, P.C., Chicago, for respondent Patrick Wright.
Renee Goldfarb, Alan J. Spellberg, Veronica Galderon Malavia and Annette Collins, Assistant State's Attorneys, Chicago, for amicus curiae Richard A. Devine, Cook County State's Attorney.
Locke E. Bowman and Lawrence C. Marshall, Chicago, for amicus curiae Mac-Arthur Justice Center.
Kimball R. Anderson and Laura D. Cullison, of Winston and Strawn, Chicago, for amicus curiae Governor James R, Thompson.
Supreme Court of Illinois.
Justice THOMAS delivered the opinion of the court:
This case comes before the court as an original action for a writ of mandamus. 188 Ill.2d R. 381. The Illinois Attorney General filed the complaint on behalf of the people of the state of Illinois. The complaint seeks a writ of mandamus ordering the Director of Corrections and the wardens of Pontiac and Menard Correctional Centers to prevent the recording of certain commutation orders entered by former...
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