Legal Opinion
Keith Ruehman and Alan Miller v. Michael Sheahan, Sheriff of Cook County, Illinois
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 6, 1994No. 93-4031, 94-1333PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
Illinois courts issue arrest warrants faster than the police can execute them. Since 1982 the Sheriff of Cook County has used a computer called spwa to track active warrants. The Sheriffs computer records more than 125,000 warrants. After a warrant issues from or is recalled by a court in Cook County, the Clerk of the Circuit Court puts a copy into a Sheriffs basket at the Clerk’s office. Someone from the Sheriffs office periodically picks up these papers so that warrant clerks can enter them into spwa. His staff keeps the paper records in separate files. The…
2Cases cited24 opinions
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- Daniels v. WilliamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
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3Cited by43 opinions
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