People v. Cohen

In this juvenile-neglect proceeding, the propriety of the dispositional order turns upon the effect to be given to one ruling made by the trial court at the dispositional hearing held pursuant to section 5— 1 of the Juvenile Court Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 37, par. 705—1). Over objection of the respondent custodial mother, the trial court took judicial notice of the evidence in a prior dissolution proceeding between the minor’s mother and father. The record here does not indicate that the court files in the prior case contained a transcript of that evidence or that such a transcript has…