PEOPLE v. PALMER

(Docket No. 125621).

182 N.E.3d 672 (2021)

2021 IL 125621

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Charles B. PALMER, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed April 15, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jon Loevy , Steven Art , Alison Leff , and Rachel Brady , of Loevy & Loevy, of Chicago, for appellant.

Kwame Raoul , Attorney General, of Springfield ( Jane Elinor Notz , Solicitor General , and Michael M. Glick and Garson S. Fischer , Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, of counsel), for the People.

John R. Robinson , Corporation Counsel, of Decatur, and Thomas G. DiCianni and Mary Jean Dolan , of Ancel Glink P.C., of Chicago, for amicus curiae City of Decatur.

Joel A. Flaxman and Kenneth N. Flaxman , of Chicago, for amici curiae First Defense Legal Aid et al.

Laura H. Nirider and Andrea L. Lewis , of Bluhm Legal Clinic Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, David M. Shapiro , of Roderik and Solange MacArthur Justice Center at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, and Steven J. Horowitz , Orlando Cosme Jr. , André P. Rouillard , and Christopher Shoup , of Sidley Austin LLP, all of Chicago, for amici curiae exonerees Jonathan Barr et al.


OPINION

¶ 1 In this appeal, we are asked to decide whether the legislature intended section 2-702(g)(3) of the Code of Civil Procedure (Code) (735 ILCS 5/2-702(g)(3) (West 2018)) to require a petitioner seeking a certificate of innocence to prove that he or she was...

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