People Ex Rel. Baricevic v. Wharton

This motion for a supervisory order arises out of six criminal proceedings in the circuit court of St. Clair County. Petitioner, John Baricevic, the State’s Attorney of St. Clair County (the State’s Attorney), requests this court to order the presiding judge in those cases, respondent, the Honorable Milton S. Wharton of the circuit court of St. Clair County (Judge Wharton), to transfer the cases to a different judge pursuant to section 114 — 5(c) of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 38, par. 114 — 5(c)).

On July 11, 1989, the State’s Attorney filed motions in…