Supreme Court of Illinois

In an adjudication of delinquency based on the felony offense of aggravated battery, application of the Illinois DNA indexing statute to require the minor to submit a DNA sample is affirmed where Juvenile Court Act's provisions making juvenile proceedings confidential do not call for a different result.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/25/2008
• Published 01/25/2008

Judges

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael J. Pelletier, Deputy Defender, Joshua A. Tepfer, Assistant Appellate Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago, for appellant., Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (James E. Fitzgerald, Alan J. Spellberg, Kathleen Warnick, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People., Steven A. Drizin, Alison F. Flaum, Chicago, Timothy P. O'Toole, Nina Chernoff, Washington, D.C., Kristine Laudadio Devine, Melissa Mahurin Whitehead, law students, for amici curiae Children and Family Justice Center of the Northwestern University School of Law et al.