People v. Parrott

This is an appeal from the trial court’s decision to deny the defendant-appellant’s petition for conditional release from the custody of the Department of Corrections. In 1975, the trial court committed the defendant to the Department of Corrections under the Sexually Dangerous Persons Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 38, par. 105 — 1 et seq.). In 1977, after the Illinois Supreme Court ruled that a person may not be committed under this act absent proof beyond a reasonable doubt (People v. Pembrock (1976), 62 Ill. 2d 317, 342 N.E.2d 28), the State filed a second petition to commit the…