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BURNETTE v. TERRELL

No. 106678.

905 N.E.2d 816 (2009)

232 Ill.2d 522

328 Ill.Dec. 927

Edwin A. BURNETTE, Public Defender of Cook County, Petitioner, v. Honorable Lawrence TERRELL, Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

March 19, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lester Finkle, Assistant Public Defender, Chicago, for petitioner, and Edwin A. Burnette, Public Defender of Cook County, Chicago, petitioner pro se.

Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield (Michael A. Scodro, Solicitor General, and John P. Schmidt, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, of counsel), for respondent.

Robert F. Harris and Kass A. Plain, Office of the Cook County Public Guardian, Chicago, for amicus curiae Cook County Public Guardian.

OPINION

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

Petitioner, Edwin A. Burnette, in his capacity as public defender of Cook County, filed this original action pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 381 (188 Ill.2d R. 381), seeking either a writ of mandamus or a writ of prohibition against the Honorable Lawrence Terrell, Judge of the circuit court of Cook County. We allowed petitioner's motion for leave to file his petition. In addition...

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