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People v. Watkins-Romaine, 2024 IL App (1st) 232479
The document discusses the State's untimely petition for pretrial detention of a defendant who remained in custody after the abolition of monetary bail under the Illinois Pretrial Fairness Act.
ilcourtsaudio.blob.core.windows.netPeople v. White, 2024 IL App (1st) 232245
The document discusses a case where the state failed to provide sufficient evidence to detain a defendant before trial, leading to a reversal of the decision and remand for reevaluation.
ilcourtsaudio.blob.core.windows.net‘It began with L; it was almost all I’s, I fancy,’ he went on, with a sense that he was getting hold of the slippery name. But the hold was too slight, and he soon got tired of this mental chase; for few men were more impatient of private occupation or more in need of making themselves continually heard than Mr Raffles. He preferred using his time
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People v. Willenborg, 2023 IL App (5th) 230727
The State appeals a court decision granting pretrial release with conditions to defendant charged with sexual offenses, arguing the conditions are insufficient to mitigate the threat posed.
ilcourtsaudio.blob.core.windows.netSuch was Lydgate’s plan of his future: to do good small work for Middlemarch, and great work for the world. He was certainly a happy fellow at this time: to be seven-and-twenty, without any fixed vices, with a generous resolution that his action should be beneficent, and with ideas in his brain that made life interesting quite apart from the cultus
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People v. Wells
Appeal of pretrial detention for Richard Wells, charged with firearm offenses. Trial court’s denial for release upheld. Debate over standards of review for pretrial detention rulings discussed.
ilcourtsaudio.blob.core.windows.netOpinion
The document discusses an appeal by Defendant Mitchell Lee challenging a pretrial detention order based on the State's petition citing a threat he posed to the community.
ilcourtsaudio.blob.core.windows.netPeople v. Cline, 2023 IL App (5th) 230849
The State appealed the circuit court's decision to strike the amended petition for detention in a case involving the denial of pretrial release for the defendant due to recent legislative changes.
ilcourtsaudio.blob.core.windows.netLydgate could only say, ‘Poor, poor darling!’ but he secretly wondered over the terrible tenacity of this mild creature. There was gathering within him an amazed sense of his powerlessness over Rosamond. His superior knowledge and mental force, instead of being, as he had imagined, a shrine to consult on all occasions, was simply set aside on every
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