MASON v. COUNTY OF COOK, ILL.

No. 06 C 3449.

488 F.Supp.2d 761 (2007)

Esses MASON, individually and on behalf of a class of similarly situated person, Plaintiffs, v. COUNTY OF COOK, ILLINOIS; Thomas Dart, Sheriff of Cook County; Edwin Burnette, Public Defender of Cook County; The Hon. E. Kenneth Wright, Chief Judge of the Municipal Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.

May 18, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Locke E. Bowman, III, David T. Harris, Molly E. Thompson, Timothy K. Baldwin, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs.

Jeffrey S. McCutchan, John Paul Heil, Jr., Cook County State's Attorney, Daniel Francis Gallagher, Daniel A. Kirk, Dominick L. Lanzito, Lawrence S. Kowalczyk, Terrence Franklin Guolee, Querrey & Harrow, Ltd., Patricia Brown Holmes, Aphrodite Kokolis, Miangel C. Robinson-Cody, Roger Pascal, Schiff Hardin LLP, Kathleen Louise Ford, Peter Chadwell Koch, Illinois Attorney General's Office, Chicago, IL, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ZAGEL, District Judge.

This proposed class1 action challenges some procedures of the Central Bond Court in Cook County.

About eight years ago, the Presiding Judge of the First Municipal District of Cook County created, by order, the Central Bond Court. Except for cases where the prosecution seeks denial of bond for persons charged with non-probational felonies, all bond hearings "shall...

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