{"id":367,"date":"2009-03-19T16:44:27","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T22:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/blog\/?p=367"},"modified":"2009-03-19T17:47:32","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T23:47:32","slug":"burnette-v-terrell-decided-by-illlinois-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/19\/burnette-v-terrell-decided-by-illlinois-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"PDs Win …Judge Terrell Loses"},"content":{"rendered":"
In a unanimous decision<\/span> from the Illinois Supreme Court<\/span>,\u00a0\u00a0the Court, exercising its supervisory powers, ruled that J Terrell, and by implication all other judges, may not pick and choose which public defender is assigned to which defendant.\u00a0 Writing for the court, Justice Garman states:<\/div>\n
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We conclude that because assistant public defenders<\/span> serve at the
\npleasure of the public defender (55 ILCS 5\/3\u20134004, 3\u20134004.1 (West
\n2006)), the public defender has the sole statutory authority to make work assignments to the assistant public defenders<\/strong>. Thus, absent a finding of contempt or other specific cause, it is beyond the scope of judicial authority for an individual judge to reject an <\/em>assistant public
\ndefender<\/span> assigned to his courtroom, to refuse to allow an <\/em>assistant
\npublic defender<\/span> to represent defendants when she has been assigned
\nto do so, or to remove an assistant public defender<\/span> from
\nrepresentation of a defendant (<\/em>emphasis added).<\/em>\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Read the case yourself by clicking this<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a unanimous decision from the Illinois Supreme Court,\u00a0\u00a0the Court, exercising its supervisory powers, ruled that J Terrell, and by implication all other judges, may not pick and choose which public defender is assigned to which defendant.\u00a0 Writing for the court, Justice Garman states: \u00a0 We conclude that because assistant public defenders serve at the […]<\/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-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","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=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}