Supreme Court of Illinois

The issue whether the state could retry defendant for first degree murder, where trial exhibits allegedly favorable to defendant were lost by the circuit clerk, has been rendered moot by the reappearance of the missing trial exhibits.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/11/2002
• Published 01/06/2003

Judges

• Justice FITZGERALD delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard J. Doyle and Mark A. Lehman, of Doyle & Associates, Danville, for appellant., James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Larry S. Mills, State's Attorney, Danville (Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General, and William L. Browers and Lisa Anne Hoffman, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for the People.