East St. Louis Township supervisor Oliver Hamilton spent more than $40,000 from the township treasury for a Las Vegas party and other personal purposes, interim U.S. attorney Donald Boyce charged on Nov. 15.
The Fifth District Appellate Court affirmed St. Clair County Associate Judge Christopher Kolker’s order dismissing claims in a suit alleging officers of a concrete corporation took company assets and customers.
The Fifth District Appellate Court has affirmed St. Clair County Circuit Judge John Baricevic who denied the post conviction petition of a 16-year-old sentenced as an adult to 15 years in prison for a Belleville armed robbery.
Belleville police officers Aaron Hackleman and Jeffrey Jensen suffered injuries in a May 19
collision on West Main Street, state police information officer Mike Link said on June 14.
Any Illinois judge would copy St. Clair County judges choosing election over retention if courts allow the choice, lawyer Aaron Weishaar of St. Louis argued at the Fourth District appellate court on June 7. “Who wouldn’t?”
At issue is whether the judges have the option of running for election over retention. The three judges resigned last August, effective this Dec. 4, creating vacancies they intend to fill through partisan competition in the fall.
MOUNT VERNON – St. Clair County Circuit Judge Robert Haida improperly dismissed a murder indictment in the death of a year old child in 972, Fifth District appellate judges ruled on May 19.
MOUNT VERNON – Copper recycler Cerro Flow Products, defending claims that it polluted 15,000 properties around Sauget, has petitioned the Fifth District appellate court to review a settlement among all other defendants.
Khari Sharp's trouble started in Texas on the evening of March 10, 2013. Back in Illinois, St. Clair County associate judge Joe Christ had died that morning of cocaine poisoning.
In a bill headed to the Illinois House of Representatives’ executive committee, a local representative wants to solidify election laws pertaining to judges.
BENTON – Car parts at the heart of a wrongful death suit filed in federal court have vanished, according to Hyundai Motor Co. On March 23, Hyundai counsel Todd Stanton wrote that seat belt components and air bags were no longer with a Hyundai Accent that rolled over in Colorado.
Voters in the five-county Twentieth Judicial Circuit have another judicial candidate scorecard to consider - one that runs counter to a poll released last week by the state bar organization.
Democrat candidates for circuit judge in the Twentieth Judicial Circuit meet acceptable requirements for office, according to evaluations released by the Illinois State Bar Association on Friday.
