Supreme Court of Illinois

Following a conviction for misdemeanor unauthorized possession or storage of a weapon resulting in adjudication of delinquency, order vacating the delinquency finding is vacated and the circuit court is directed to reinstate the delinquency finding where the Juvenile Court Act does not give a judge authority to vacate, over the state's objection, a delinquency finding that has previously been lawfully entered on the basis of a guilty plea.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/18/2007
• Published 10/18/2007

Judges

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (James E. Fitzgerald, Alan J. Spellberg, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield (Roger L. Longtin, Catherine J. Casey, Special Assistant Attorneys General, of DLA Piper US LLP, Chicago, of counsel), for respondent Honorable Paul Stralka., Edwin A. Burnette, Public Defender, Chicago (James S. Jacobs, Assistant Public Defender, of counsel), for minor respondent.