Legal Opinion
Allen v. Illinois
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided July 1, 1986No. 85-5404PublishedCited by 432 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Rehnquist
The question presented by this case is whether the proceedings under the Illinois Sexually Dangerous Persons Act (Act), Ill. Rev. Stat., ch. 38, ¶105-1.01 et seq. (1985), are “criminal” within the meaning of the Fifth Amendment’s guarantee against compulsory self-incrimination.
Petitioner Terry B. Allen was charged by information in the Circuit Court of Peoria County with committing the crimes of unlawful restraint and deviate sexual assault. Shortly thereafter the State filed a petition to have petitioner declared a sexually dangerous person within the meaning of *366the Act.1 After a preliminary…
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