Supreme Court of Illinois

The state's prohibition of so-called virtual child pornography suffers from the same constitutional infirmity that doomed the federal prohibition of virtual child pornography in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, 535 U.S. 234, but that provision is severable from the remainder of the child pornography statute.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/22/2003
• Published 07/09/2003

Judges

• Justice FITZGERALD delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James E. Ryan,Lisa Madigan, Attorneys General, Springfield, Michael J. Waller, State's Attorney, Waukegan (Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General, William L. Browers, David P. Haslett, Mary Beth Burns and Lisa Anne Hoffman, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for the People.


• For Appellees:
  
• Morrison & Morrison, P.C., Waukegan (Donald J. Morrison, of counsel), for appellee.