{"id":333,"date":"2009-02-23T14:04:16","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T20:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/blog\/?p=333"},"modified":"2009-02-23T14:04:16","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T20:04:16","slug":"initial-speedy-trial-demand-controls-in-refiled-felony-dui-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/02\/23\/initial-speedy-trial-demand-controls-in-refiled-felony-dui-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Initial Speedy Trial Demand Controls in Refiled Felony DUI Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A sharply divided <span id=\"lw_1235419086_0\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Illinois Supreme Court<\/span> (4-3), issued an important and useful <span id=\"lw_1235419086_1\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Speedy Trial decision<\/span> on 2\/20\/09 in a DUI case written by Justice Freeman.\u00a0 The DUI arose in <span id=\"lw_1235419086_2\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Champaign County<\/span> when defendant Larry Van Schoyck was issued tickets\/citations for a DUI by <span id=\"lw_1235419086_3\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Champaign County Sheriff J.P. Reifstock<\/span>. \u00a0A written <span id=\"lw_1235419086_4\" class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"cursor: hand; border-bottom: #0066cc 1px dashed;\">speedy trial<\/span> demand was made by counsel on the first court date.\u00a0 Several court dates later the local prosecutor dismissed the tickets and recharged the defendant, by information,with a felony DUI based on driving on a revoked license.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>After 160 passed from the filing of the Speedy Trial Demand on the tickets,\u00a0defendant moved to dismiss based on an Illinois statutory <span id=\"lw_1235419086_5\" class=\"yshortcuts\">speedy trial<\/span> violation. \u00a0The motion was denied; defendant went to trial and lost (shocking), and received a six year IDOC sentence (not so shocking in <span id=\"lw_1235419086_6\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Champaign County<\/span>).<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Our <span id=\"lw_1235419086_7\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Supreme Court<\/span> reversed on <span id=\"lw_1235419086_8\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Speedy trial grounds<\/span> finding that &#8220;defendant&#8217;s speedy-trial demand filed with respect to the offense charged by complaint [the tickets] was applicable to the same offense refiled by the State in its information&#8230;.The circuit court therefore incorrectly denied defendant&#8217;s motion to dismiss.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Lesson learned&#8230;demand trial on those <span id=\"lw_1235419086_9\" class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"cursor: hand; border-bottom: #0066cc 1px dashed;\">traffic court<\/span> DUIs, and look for other areas this case may apply to.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.il.us\/court\/Opinions\/SupremeCourt\/2009\/February\/105632.pdf\">People v Larry Van Schoyck<\/a>,\u00a0 Docket No. 105632, 2\/20\/09<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sharply divided Illinois Supreme Court (4-3), issued an important and useful Speedy Trial decision on 2\/20\/09 in a DUI case written by Justice Freeman.\u00a0 The DUI arose in Champaign County when defendant Larry Van Schoyck was issued tickets\/citations for a DUI by Champaign County Sheriff J.P. Reifstock. \u00a0A written speedy trial demand was made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}