Supreme Court of Illinois

Conviction for possession of cocaine with intent to deliver is affirmed over claims that it was improper for the court to set a deadline for acceptance of a negotiated plea and then, when that deadline had passed, refuse to accept any plea agreement.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/18/2004
• Published 03/18/2004

Judges

• Justice RARICK delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James Ryan and Lisa Madigan, Attorneys General, Springfield, and Marshall E. Douglas, State's Attorney, Rock Island (Gary Feinerman, Solicitor General, Lisa Anne Hoffman, Anne S. Bagby, Linda Woloshin and Russell K. Benton, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, and Norbert J. Goetten, John X. Breslin and Richard T. Leonard, of the Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, Ottawa, of counsel), for the People.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert J. Agostinelli, Deputy Defender, and Kerry J. Bryson, Assistant Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, Ottawa, for appellee.