Defendant in a consolidated matter appealed from a circuit court order granting the State’s petition to deny pretrial release. Defendant argued on appeal that the State failed to prove that he committed a detainable offense on one of the cases, that the detention orders were duplicative and that one should be dismissed, and that a no-contact order imposed as a condition of detention was improper. The appellate court affirmed, finding that the circuit court did not err in determining that the defendant committed a qualifying offense, that subsequent petitions are only prohibited by the language of the Act when they are filed in the same case, not in a separately filed case, and that the language of the Act explicitly authorizes imposition of a no-contact provision. (KENNEDY, concurring and McLAREN, specially concurring)
Illinois Appellate Court
Criminal Court
Pre-Trial Fairness Act