In Whiteside County, this defendant was cited for the Class 4 felony of driving on a suspended license. He filed a motion to suppress evidence, claiming a violation of his fourth amendment rights, and he was successful in the circuit court.
Justice Freeman dissented, with opinion, joined by Justices Kilbride and Burke. In Highland Park, defendant Lisa Carlson owned a residential unit in the Spanish Court Two Condominium, whose condominium association is the plaintiff here.
This Kane County custody dispute arose after the parties divorce in 2005. In 2010, the husband, as plaintiff, filed a petition seeking custody modification and, pursuant to statute, a psychologist was appointed by the circuit court to perform an evaluation. The evaluators report was submitted when the girl was 14, the fathers petition was dismissed, and the father was ordered to pay the evaluators fees as a court cost.
In the circuit court of Cook County, this defendant was charged with computer tampering in 2008. An arraignment was set for June 18 of that year, but the docket sheet, the judges half sheet, and the court call sheet for that date indicate that the defendant was not in court and that the arraignment did not take place.
Chief Justice Garman and Justices Thomas, Kilbride, Karmeier, Burke, and Theis concurred in the judgment and opinion. This defendant was arrested at age 14, a few days after the 1990 fatal shooting of two men in Chicago. In the circuit court of Cook County, he was tried as an adult on an accountability theory and received, pursuant to statute, a natural life sentence without parole because he had been found guilty of murdering more than one person.
In Kane County, a woman who was represented by an attorney sought child support from this defendant, who proceeded pro se. At 2010 circuit court proceeding in that matter, the defendant recorded courtroom conversations in which he took part with this attorney and the presiding judge.
In 2001, the injury victim in this case, Edward Anderson, was in the intensive care unit of Provena St. Marys Hospital in Cook County, suffering from epiglottitis. A negligence action was later filed on his behalf, based on a severe and permanent brain injury which he suffered when an emergency room physician attempted to intubate him after responding to a Code Blue based on the patients labored breathing and pain on swallowing. Anderson is now a disabled person.
In Kane County, a woman who was represented by an attorney sought child support from this defendant, who proceeded pro se. At 2010 circuit court proceeding in that matter, the defendant recorded courtroom conversations in which he took part with this attorney and the presiding judge.