Last week, we reviewed the county-by-county data for the Supreme Court’s Fourth District civil cases. This week, we’re looking at the criminal side of the docket.
In 1990, the Supreme Court decided one criminal case each from Macon, McLean and Vermilion counties. The following year, the Court decided only one criminal case from the Fourth, which originated in Champaign county. In 1992, the Court decided one case each from Livingston, McLean, Sangamon and Vermilion counties. The Court decided two criminal cases from McLean county in 1993 and one more from Livingston. In 1994, the Court decided two cases from McLean and one each from Adams county and Champaign county.
In 1995, the Court decided two criminal cases which originated in Vermilion county and one from McLean. In 1996, the Court decided one case each from Champaign, Livingston and Piatt counties. In 1997, the Court decided two cases from Champaign, two from McLean and one each from Douglas, Menard, Pike and Vermilion counties. In 1998, the Court decided one case from Adams county and one from Champaign. In 1999, the Court decided two cases from Vermilion county and one from Champaign, Ford and Woodford counties.
The Court decided two criminal cases from Vermilion county in 2000 and one each from Champaign, Coles, Logan, Pike and Sangamon counties. The Court had an unusually high number of Fourth District criminal cases in 2001 – four from Champaign, three from Adams, three from Sangamon and one each from Logan, Macoupin and Vermilion counties. In 2002, the Court decided three cases from Vermilion county and one each from Champaign, Livingston, McLean and Morgan counties. In 2003, the Court decided three cases from Vermilion and one each from Champaign, Coles, Macon and Piatt. In 2004, the Court decided four cases from Champaign county, two from Macoupin and Sangamon and one each from Livingston, McLean and Pike counties.
Join us back here tomorrow as we finish our analysis with the years 2005 to 2019.
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