Supreme Court of Illinois

In an issue addressed under the public interest exception to the mootness doctrine, where defendant was incarcerated for eight months due to his failure to appear on a bond for a burglary arrest and arraignment, and was subsequently convicted for the bail bond violation, defendant should receive a credit on his sentence for the time he served.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/28/2004
• Published 10/28/2004

Judges

• Justice KILBRIDE delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• G. Joseph Weller, Deputy Defender, Jack Hildebrand, Assistant Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Elgin, for appellant., Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, Joseph E. Birkett, State's Attorney, Wheaton (Gary Feinerman, Solicitor General, Linda D. Woloshin, Mary A. Fleming, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for the People.