Supreme Court of Illinois

After conviction for aggravated sexual assault, requiring a 12-year-old child to register for life as a sex offender was constitutional, but a prohibition on residing in or visiting a community was overly broad where it failed to make any provision for entry into the area for legitimate purposes.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/20/2003
• Published 04/29/2003

Judges

• Justice THOMAS delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Josette Skelnik, Elgin, for appellant., James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield, Meg Gorecki, State's Attorney, St. Charles (Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General, William L. Browers, Anne S. Bagby, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for the People., Herschella Conyers, Chicago, for amicus curiae Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic of the University of Chicago Law School., Steven A. Drizin, Chicago, Colleen M. Ryan, law student, for amicus curiae Bluhm Legal Clinic of Northwestern University School of Law.