Legal Opinion
People v. R.L.
Illinois Supreme Court
Decided March 24, 1994No. Nos. 75081, 75082, 75083 consPublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Freeman
Section 5 — 4(7)(a) of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 provides, under various circumstances, for the automatic transfer of cases of 15- and 16-year-old minors charged with drug offenses from the juvenile division of a circuit court to that court’s criminal division. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1991, ch. 37, par. 805 — 4(7)(a).) The question presented for review is whether this section, as applied to such minors charged with committing drug offenses on or near public housing property, denies such minors the equal protection of the laws. We hold that it does not.
BACKGROUND
On April 6, 1992, defendant D.W.…
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