Supreme Court of Illinois

In the matter of a discharge hearing to determine the sufficiency of evidence against a defendant who was mentally unfit for trial, admission of reliable hearsay is allowed where the discharge-only hearing itself is a civil proceeding so there is no constitutional violation if the rules for criminal trials do not apply.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/02/2006
• Published 06/15/2007

Judges

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

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, and J. Frank McCartney, State's Attorney, Pittsfield (Gary Feinerman, Solicitor General, Linda D. Woloshin and Katherine D. Saunders, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for the People.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jesse R. Gilsdorf, Mt. Sterling, for appellee.