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Scott v. Illinois, 440 U.S. 367 (1979), was a case heard by the Supreme Court of the United States. In Scott, the Court decided whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments required Illinois to provide Scott with trial counsel. To emphasize the importance of court-appointed counsel, the Court opined, "[T]he interest protected by the right to ...
Escobedo v. Illinois, 378 U.S. 478 (1964), is a United States Supreme Court case holding that criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations under the Sixth Amendment. [1] The case was decided a year after the court had held in Gideon v. Wainwright that indigent criminal defendants have a right to be provided counsel at ...
This is a list of people executed in Illinois. A total of twelve people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Illinois since 1977. [1] All were executed by lethal injection. Another man condemned in Illinois, Alton Coleman, was executed in Ohio. [2] Capital punishment in Illinois was abolished in 2011.
A special prosecutor had been appointed to handle the case because Wilson’s defense included allegations of misconduct against the Cook County state’s attorney’s office under previous ...
A Missouri man has been arrested after handing himself in over the murder of his 75-year-old father, according to police. Jeffrey Goedde, 41, arrived at the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office in ...
The Ellis County Sheriff's office said there are 133 jailers and 137 deputies who currently work at the jail compared to 558 inmates in the jail. The memorial service for Bias was announced Thursday.
Defendants convicted, Cook County, Illinois Circuit Court; affirmed, Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, 121 Ill. App. 2d 323 (1971); cert. granted, 402 U.S. 995 (1971). Holding Pre-indictment showup without counsel was not a violation of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel because the criminal prosecution had not yet begun.
(In the Circuit Court of Cook County, which contains Chicago and is the largest of the 24 circuits in Illinois, circuit judges are elected from the entire county or as resident judges from each of the fifteen subcircuits within the county.) Associate judges are appointed by circuit judges, under Supreme Court rules, for four-year terms.