Supreme Court of Illinois

In the matter of a petition to have respondent committed pursuant to the Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act, a motion to dismiss the petition as untimely is denied where respondent brought about the delay of the date of his entry into mandatory supervised release and that this delay could, thus, be attributable to him.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/22/2005
• Published 09/22/2005

Judges

• Justice McMORROW delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

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


• For Appellees:
  
• Daniel P. Duffy, of Duffy & Mundo, P.C., Chicago, E. Hardy Lewis, of Blanchard, Jenkins, Miller, Lewis & Styers, P.A., Raleigh, North Carolina, for appellee.