IN RE COMMITMENT OF GAVIN

No. 1-18-0881.

143 N.E.3d 885 (2019)

2019 IL App (1st) 180881

IN RE COMMITMENT OF Edward GAVIN, (The People of the State of Illinois, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Edward Gavin, Respondent-Appellant.)

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, First Division.

Opinion filed September 23, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael R. Johnson , Kate E. Levine , and Ian C. Barnes , of Johnson & Levine LLC, of Chicago, for appellant.

Kwame Raoul , Attorney General, of Chicago ( Jane Elinor Notz , Solicitor General, and Michael M. Glick and Evan B. Elsner , Assistant Attorneys General, of counsel), for the People.


OPINION

¶ 1 In 2012 a Cook County jury found Edward Gavin to be a sexually violent person as defined in the Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act (SVP Act) (725 ILCS 207/1 et seq. (West 2010)). We reversed and remanded for a new trial in light of improper statements...

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