People v. Baker

PRESIDING JUSTICE KNECHT,

specially concurring:

I concur, and write only to comment on the impact of this decision on waiver and People v. Brady (1988), 172 Ill. App. 3d 1079, 1086, 527 N.E.2d 590, 595. As the author of several decisions involving recoupment, and whether waiver should be applied, I fully agree with the decision here. Any confusion concerning the rights of defendants and the standards to be met in recoupment orders should by now have been clarified.

As in People v. Burrows (1989), 183 Ill. App. 3d 949, 955-56, 539 N.E.2d 842, 846, it is inappropriate to permit a defendant to sit…