People v. Randall M.

PRESIDING JUSTICE GROMETER

delivered the opinion of the court:

This appeal presents two issues involving section 5 — 410 of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 (Act) (705 ILCS 405/5 — 410 (West 2004)). The first issue is whether section 5 — 410 authorizes the automatic transfer of a minor with pending delinquency matters from a juvenile detention facility to an adult detention facility upon the minor’s seventeenth birthday. The second issue is whether, under section 5 — 410, a minor 17 years of age or older with pending delinquency matters may be housed in the general population of a county jail.

On…