We submit at the Illinois Metro East criminal defense firm of Sullivan Law that the following tale with resonate with many of our blog readers. They might reasonably regard it as a ready catalyst for a fundamental change to the state’s current practice regarding...
Month: March 2020
Illinois DUI police patrols notably busy throughout March
Have you heard of the ACE program?Many readers of our Sullivan Law criminal defense blog posts likely have no clue what that initiative entails. After all, we are uniformly engulfed in modern life with an overload of acronyms and shorthand designations for various...
Spotlight on domestic violence and Orders of Protection
We spotlighted the criminal charge of domestic violence in our immediately preceding Sullivan Law blog post. We noted in our March 11 entry that a charge/conviction in Illinois “can relate to an impressively broad range of conduct.”The expansive universe...
What does the realm of criminal domestic violence encompass?
A lot.Without mincing words, the bottom-line reality concerning domestic violence in Illinois is that allegations of wrongdoing and subsequent criminal charging/conviction can relate to an impressively broad range of conduct. Police in all areas of the state routinely...
Once-vaunted juvenile justice program now heavily criticized
“We should scrap it and start all over again.”Such is the informed judgment of one Illinois juvenile justice expert concerning a once-lauded youth-linked criminal system diversion program that has long suffered from notable defects. What Betsy Clarke and...
A look at criminal expungement and record sealing
Many individuals across Illinois share a common challenge that routinely confronts them and limits their opportunities in important ways.That onus is persistent and seems to many adversely affected persons to be a permanent nemesis that will follow them and curtail...
