Supreme Court of Illinois - June 2004 Opinion Summaries

People v. Harvey

Criminal Law & Procedure
In unrelated consolidated cases, the error in the use of mere-fact impeachment did not, alone, call for reversal in any of these cases.

People v. Santos

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In an action for of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, preclusion of defendant from cross-examining the victim on inconsistent pre trial statements is...

In re Marriage of Crook

Family Law
In an action for dissolution of marriage, taking Social Security into consideration, insofar as this amounts to an offset, or an equalization of a...

City of Urbana v. Andrew N.B.

Criminal Law & Procedure, Juvenile Law
In consolidated appeals from actions against minors for violations of city ordinances, contempt findings and detention orders are vacated where, in...

People v. Griffith

Criminal Law & Procedure
In the matter of a retrial based on a withdrawn guilty plea to a 14-year-old first degree murder charge, conviction for felony murder is affirmed by...

People v. Pitman

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In the matter of an indictment for growing marijuana, motion to suppress evidence is affirmed where defendant had a reasonable expectation of privacy...

Roth v. Opiela

Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law
In an action regarding a mandatory buy-sell provision that required a deceased stockholder of a closely held corporation to sell his shares back to...

Flynn v. Industrial Comm'n

Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In a worker's compensation claim where claimant engaged in seasonal employment, claimant should be compensated by taking into consideration, as...

People v. Walker

Criminal Law & Procedure
In a conviction for unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon, a new trial is ordered where the trial court's refusal to exclude the description of...

Hawes v. Luhr Brothers, Inc.

Admiralty, Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In an appeal from the vacation of a voluntary dismissal of an admiralty claim, the appeal is dismissed where current statute gives circuit courts...