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SIMS-HEARN v. OFFICE OF MEDICAL EXAMINER

No. 1-04-1927.

834 N.E.2d 505 (2005)

359 Ill. App.3d 439

295 Ill.Dec. 924

Gwendolyn A. SIMS-HEARN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. OFFICE OF the MEDICAL EXAMINER, COUNTY OF COOK, Robert J. Stein, Institute of Forensic Medicine, Defendant-Appellee.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, First Division.

August 15, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Borah and Linda Oschsenfeld of William J. Borah & Associates, Homewood, for Appellant.

Patrick T. Driscoll, Jr., Deputy State's Attorney of Cook County, Chicago, John A. Ouska, Assistant State's Attorney (Ronald Weidhuner, Assistant State's Attorney, of counsel), for Appellee.

Justice O'MALLEY delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff, Gwendolyn Sims-Hearn, filed a claim in the Court of Claims, seeking compensation pursuant to the Crime Victims Compensation Act (740 ILCS 45/1 et seq. (2000)), for the death of her son. She claimed her son was murdered because he had witnessed a murder. After the Court of Claims denied her claim, plaintiff filed a pro se negligence action against defendant Office of the Medical Examiner...

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