Supreme Court of Illinois

In the matter of a juvenile who had three delinquency actions pending against him and one of the three set for trial, a request for mandamus to compel the judge to set a second case for trial was denied where the term "party" in the Juvenile Court Act speedy-trial provision is not intended to include the State in this context, and that the State cannot force a juvenile to trial. The supreme court noted that a circuit court's management of its own docket is a matter traditionally reserved to its discretion and is not, therefore, amenable to mandamus relief.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/22/2006
• Published 06/22/2006

Judges

• Justice FREEMAN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (James E. Fitzgerald, Alan J. Spellberg and Sang Won Shim, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for petitioner., Edwin A. Burnette, Public Defender, Chicago (Suzanne A. Isaacson, Assistant Public Defender, of counsel), for the minor.