PEOPLE v. CHATMAN

No. 1-15-2395.

66 N.E.3d 415 (2016)

2016 IL App (1st) 152395

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Carl CHATMAN, Defendant-Appellee (Susan Riggio, Petitioner-Appellant).

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fifth Division.

September 30, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeremiah P. Connolly , Rachel D. Kiley , Darla A. Porta , and James M. Gale , all of Bollinger Connolly Krause LLC, of Chicago, for appellant.

Anita M. Alvarez , State's Attorney, of Chicago ( Alan J. Spellberg and Paul Castiglione , Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Debra Loevy-Reyes , Russell Ainsworth , and Elizabeth Wang , all of Loevy & Loevy, of Chicago, for appellee Carl Chatman.


OPINION

¶ 1 This appeal raises a purely legal question: does the complainant in a criminal case have standing to bring a petition, pursuant to section 2-1401 of the Code of Civil Procedure (Code) (735 ILCS 5/2-1401 (West 2014)),1

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