Supreme Court of Illinois

Conviction for aggravated battery is affirmed where the grant of a defense motion for a psychological examination, without more, does not create a sufficient inference that the trial court found bona fide doubt of defendant's fitness to stand trial to require a remand for a retrospective fitness hearing.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/23/2004
• Published 09/23/2004

Judges

• Justice KILBRIDE delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Kevin W. Lyons, State's Attorney, Peoria (Gary Feinerman, Solicitor General, Linda D. Woloshin and Russell K. Benton, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, and Norbert J. Goetten, Lawrence M. Bauer 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 Mark D. Fisher, Assistant Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, Ottawa, for appellee.