Legal Opinion
In Re Detention of Bolton
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided November 13, 2003No. 4-02-0515PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cook
Defendant, Paul B. Bolton, appeals an April 16, 2002, jury verdict finding him to be a sexually violent person pursuant to Illinois’s Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act (Act) (725 ILCS 207/1 through 99 (West 2000)). We reverse and remand.
I. BACKGROUND
On April 7, 1994, defendant pleaded guilty to criminal sexual assault (720 ILCS 5/12 — 13(b) (West 1994)), a Class X felony, for molestation and oral sex upon a child, his stepsister, which he admitted began when she was 6 yeárs old and he was 12 years old. (Defendant was born in 1976.) Defendant was sentenced to four years’ intensive…
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