People Ex Rel. Cruz v. Fitzgerald

This is an original petition for a writ of prohibition to prevent the judges of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit in Du Page County from presiding over a trial of the petitioner, Robert Cruz, and alternatively or in conjunction with the above, for a writ of mandamus ordering the State’s Attorney for the County of Du Page to refrain from prosecuting him. The petitioner claims that he was granted transactional immunity from prosecution for the offenses now pending in Du Page County^by order of the presiding judge of the criminal court of Cook County, but that Du Page Judge James Fitzgerald denied…