MURPHYSBORO — Joseph A. Cervantez, Jackson County State's Attorney, announced that on December 2, 2021, Jered L. McPike Jr., 21, of Carbondale, Illinois received a sentence of twenty-three (23) years in the Illinois Department of Corrections, followed by an eighteen...
MURPHYSBORO — Jackson County State's Attorney, Joseph A. Cervantez, announced today that Dylan J. Moutria, age 31, of Murphysboro, Illinois, has been charged with 43 Counts of Possession of Stolen Mail, each count is a Class 4 Felony, for multiple incidents that...
In 1983 she was appointed an Associate Judge in the Circuit Court of Cook County, where she served for five years. In 1988, Justice Theis was elected to the Circuit Court, where she was assigned to both the Criminal and Chancery Divisions until 1993, when she was appointed to the Appellate Court, First District.
She received her bachelor's degree from Loyola University Chicago in 1971 and her law degree from the University of San Francisco, School of Law in 1974. From 1974-83, she was an Assistant Public Defender in Cook County. Justice Theis has served at every level of the Judiciary in the State of Illinois.
Justice Neville, a graduate of Washington University's School of Law, has been actively practicing law in Illinois since 1974 when he became a law clerk for Justice Glenn T. Johnson of the Illinois Appellate Court. Thereafter, Justice Neville specialized in appellate, employment, civil rights and complex civil litigation.
He was elected Circuit Judge in 1988 and became Chief Judge in 1993.
Justice Overstreet serves on the Illinois Judicial Conference and is Vice-Chair of the Public Relations Task Force.
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Cook County also held primary elections for clerk of the circuit court, county board of review commissioner, county water reclamation district board member, circuit court judgeships, and subcircuit court judgeships on March 17, 2020. Click here for more information on these elections. Contents.
Read more about the issue here. In the 2016 state's attorney election, Foxx defeated incumbent Anita Alvarez (D) in the primary and won the general election with 72% of the vote. Foxx said her office had made progress reducing violent crime, vacating wrongful convictions, and enacting meaningful criminal justice reforms.
Each commissioner is elected by district to a four-year term. Residents also elect a three-member board of review, county assessor, state's attorney, county sheriff, clerk of the circuit court, county clerk, county treasurer, and county recorder .
Foxx received 50.5% of the vote to Conway's 31.1% and More's 13.4%. The election took place a year following national attention around the case of former Empire actor Jussie Smollett, who filed a police report January 2019 alleging that two men attacked him while making comments about race and sexual orientation.
Foxx dropped the charges against Smollett in March 2019 in favor of an alternative prosecution program. Foxx's 2020 Democratic primary challengers criticized her handling of the case. Read more about the issue here.
The election took place a year following national attention around the case of former Empire actor Jussie Smollett, who filed a police report January 29, 2019, alleging that two men attacked him while making comments about race and sexual orientation. The next month, Smollett was charged with several counts of disorderly conduct associated with making a false police report. Foxx dropped the charges against Smollett in March 2019 in favor of alternative prosecution, in which Smollett forfeited a $10,000 bond and completed 16 hours of community service.
Foxx criticized Conway by saying he was trying to buy the office, referring to millions of dollars his campaign received from his father. She also criticized his father's business by saying it profited from global conflicts and military weapons. Conway said, "I love my dad, but I’m not him." He also said, "I knew early on that I would need some family support to do this, just because it’s a giant county, (I’m) not a famous person, I’m obviously doing it without any kind of backing of the Cook County machine."