People v. Rodgers

Pursuant to their pretrial motions, the circuit court of Kane County dismissed certain counts of the indictments returned against defendants, Marvin Reed and Frederick Rodgers, on the grounds that no evidence was presented to the grand jury in support of those charges. The appellate court reversed and remanded the causes, holding that trial courts lack authority to review the transcript of proceedings upon which an indictment is based. (98 Ill. App. 3d 999.) We granted defendants leave to appeal in these consolidated cases.

The issue is whether a trial court may properly dismiss an indictment,…