PEOPLE v. BROWN

No. 100956.

866 N.E.2d 1163 (2007)

225 Ill.2d 188

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellant, v. Woodrow BROWN, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

April 5, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (Linda D. Woloshin, Michael Glick, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, James Fitzgerald, Alan J. Spellberg, Mary L. Boland, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Michael J. Pelletier, Deputy Defender, Heidi Linn Lambros, Assistant Appellate Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago, for appellee.


Justice KARMEIER delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion:

Defendant, Woodrow Brown, is an inmate in the Department of Corrections, where he is serving a 28-year sentence for attempted murder of a police officer, a crime he committed in 1997 at the age of 16. The issue presented by this case is whether defendant should be granted post-conviction relief on the grounds that the statute under which he was transferred from juvenile custody to criminal court and...

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