Supreme Court of Illinois

The general savings clause of section 4 of the Illinois Statute on Statutes, 5 ILCS 70/4, applies to preserve defendant's conviction despite the fact that, while her appeal was pending, the legislature repealed the statute describing the crime for which she was convicted without a specific savings clause.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/05/2002
• Published 01/29/2003

Judges

• Justice GARMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Joe Jackson, State's Attorney, Metropolis (Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General, William L. Browers and Karen Kaplan, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, and Norbert J. Goetten, Stephen E. Norris and Patrick D. Daly, of the Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, Mt. Vernon, of counsel), for the People.


• For Appellees:
  
• Daniel M. Kirwan, Deputy Defender, and Lawrence J. O'Neill, Assistant Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, Mt. Vernon, for appellee.