People v. Nicholls

Mr. JUSTICE GEORGE J. MORAN,

dissenting:

This court should deny the praecipe for fee bill and demand for certificate of costs because petitioners do not meet the statutory requirements for an allowance of fees. The Statewide Appellate Assistance Service of the Illinois State’s Attorneys Association handled the appeals in the cases now before us and subsequently filed petitions requesting an assessment by this court of the appropriate fees under section 8 of “An Act concerning fees and salaries ** * *” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 53, par. 8) against each defendant. These petitions were filed in…