Supreme Court of Illinois

Juvenile conviction and adult sentence under extended jurisdiction juvenile (EJJ) prosecution upheld where: 1) the law-of-the-case doctrine does not bar the designation of a case as an EJJ prosecution after a motion for discretionary transfer has been affirmed on appeal; and 2) defendant did not unambiguously invoke his right to counsel when he asked investigators if he would need a lawyer.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/15/2005
• Published 12/15/2005

Judges

• Justice GARMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (Linda D. Woloshin, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, and Renee Goldfarb, Susan Schierl Sullivan, Annette Collins, Ashley Romito, Veronica Calderon Malavia and Alan J. Spellberg, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People., Marsha L. Levick and Nina W. Chernoff, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for amici curiae Juvenile Law Center et al.


• For Appellees:
  
• Cathryn S. Crawford, and Thomas F. Geraghty, Chicago, and Richard Lindstrom, Haley Stein, Jennifer Lupfer, Jennifer Bruni, Tiffany Fobes, Alejandro Ponce de Leon, Christopher Stanton, Guy Temple, Alfred Wang and Andrew Whitcup, law students, for Appellee.