People Ex Rel. Finck v. Locher

JUSTICE WILLIAM A. LEWIS

delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, Bruce D. Locher, Special State’s Attorney for Madison County, appeals from an order holding him in contempt of court and from a subsequent order reaffirming the contempt holding and sentencing him to two consecutive weekends in jail.

This case has a long history and a unique background most of which is not relevant to the issues raised in this appeal. Judge Dennis A. Cashman from the Eighth Judicial Circuit was assigned by the supreme court at the request of the chief judge of the Third Judicial Circuit to hold court in…