In Re Childress

Following an investigation and hearing, the Committee on Character and Fitness for the First Judicial District refused to certify to the State Board of Law Examiners that petitioner, James Stevenson Childress, possessed good moral character and general fitness to practice law. Childress has filed with this court a petition requesting relief from the committee’s adverse decision. (See 113 Ill. 2d R 708(d).) We deny the petition.

In 1973 petitioner, who was then 16 years old, pleaded guilty in the circuit court of Cook County to charges of rape and robbery and was sentenced to an indeterminate…