BELLEVILLE - Three months after appellate judges classified a pump as an office to affirm St. Clair County jurisdiction over Prairie State power plant in Washington County, John Lewellyng of Florida sued Prairie State in St. Clair County.
MOUNT VERNON - St. Clair County Associate Judge Julie Katz correctly detained two suspects under the state’s bail reform law, the SAFE-T Act, according to Fifth District appellate judges.
MOUNT VERNON – St. Clair County Circuit Judge Kevin Hoerner committed error by identifying South Dakota resident Lynna Clemens as an Illinois resident, Fifth District appellate judges ruled on May 24.
SPRINGFIELD – Supreme Court Justices chose not to disturb an appellate court decision that Union Pacific deserved a second trial because St. Clair County Circuit Judge Heinz Rudolf allowed inflammatory and improper closing argument.
MOUNT VERNON – St. Clair County Circuit Judge Zina Cruse improperly excluded evidence that murder suspect Dominic Combs committed a similar crime in similar circumstances, Fifth District appellate judges ruled on Aug. 12.