In the wake of new legal proceedings in a high-profile Illinois corruption case, attempts to reform ethics requirements for state officials have weakened but not stopped.

The case against a Quincy man charged in a September shooting was back in court Monday on what was intended to be a sentencing hearing for a negotiated plea.

The settlement would go to Carl Reed, a mentally disabled man who spent nearly 19 years in prison for the 2001 fatal stabbing of a North Side neighbor Reed was allegedly coerced by CPD detective Richard Zuley and now-deceased Det. Timothy Thompson into confessing to a murder he claimed he did not commit.

A law originally enacted to keep the state’s nuclear fleet profitable is instead giving relief to energy customers due to rising power costs and increased federal subsidies for nuclear generators.

On Jan. 1, 1998, an Illinois law took effect allowing the state to commit to an institution any sex offender who’d served their time in prison, but was still found to be a danger to the public. Illinois is one of 20 states with such a law on the books.