Supreme Court of Illinois

In a petition to have a convict set for release civilly committed for control and treatment as a sexually violent person under the Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act, granting of the petition is affirmed over objections that the circuit court failed to have a Frye hearing as to the admissibility of expert testimony which relied on actuarial risk assessment instruments.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/16/2004
• Published 12/16/2004

Judges

• Justice THOMAS delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield (Gary Feinerman, Solicitor General, and Linda D. Woloshin, Lionel W. Weaver and Jay Paul Hoffmann, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for the People.


• For Appellees:
  
• John M. Delaney, Jr., East Alton, for appellee.