The Illinois Supreme Court is weighing whether it is constitutional to impose lifetime restrictions on where a person can live after they’ve been convicted of a sex crime involving a minor.
A Champaign man convicted of murder in the 2018 shooting of Ricky Green hopes the Illinois Supreme Court will allow him to have a new trial. Michael Chatman believes he deserves another chance in court because a key witness to the shooting did not show up for his trial.
The Illinois Attorney General's Office is investigating Peoria's WTVP public television station following the station's finding that there had been "questionable, improper, unauthorized" internal spending.
The Illinois Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear arguments from three staffing agencies that say their industry is exempt from state antitrust laws in a case claiming the firms conspired to hold down wages for their workers.
After overcoming lawsuits and several obstacles the Illinois Assault Weapons Ban is facing another hurdle, a petition from a state representative. Republican State Representative Dan Caulkins filed the petition for the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Illinois high courts decision on the Assault Weapons Ban.
The county board voted unanimously Tuesday night for John Milhiser as Sangamon County State’s Attorney. Milhiser said he has many priorities including public safety and supporting victims as well as reducing juvenile crime, retail theft and drug overdoses.
The handwritten letter arrived days before Christmas 2022. "THIS IS AN EMERGENCY ISSUE!!!" it began. "PLEASE HELP." Signed by 14 people incarcerated in one of the highest-security federal prisons in the country, the letter was an urgent warning for prison officials: Several corrections officers were trying to bribe prisoners to attack the warden and one of his captains.
Posted on November 14, 2023 by Celeste Antoinette Niemann
The Cook County Bar Association Foundation is hosting a pro bono legal clinic on Saturday, December 2, 2023, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at True Rock Ministries, 57 E. 16th Street, Chicago.
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up the appeal of an Illinois inmate whose lawyers argued his rights were violated when he was kept in solitary confinement for some three years and denied virtually all access to exercise.
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday that it has adopted an ethics code amid controversies stemming in part from Justice Clarence Thomas’ acceptance of luxury travel from wealthy friends. In a statement released with the new Code of Conduct for Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, the Supreme Court said the code “largely represents a codification of principles that we have long regarded as governing our conduct.”
