Illinois recognizes strict laws and associated penalties when drivers are suspected of operating their vehicles with alcohol in their systems. While drivers of the legal drinking age can face the losses of their licenses, jail time, and significant fines for their...
Juvenile Offenses
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...
Why do the juvenile, adult justice systems differ?
We imagine at the established Illinois criminal defense firm of Sullivan Law in Fairview Heights that most readers of our blog view the answer to today’s above headline query obvious.A representative response might simply be this: because one affects mature...
