FoxFire asks state Supreme Court to throw out indoor dining ban
FoxFire Tavern in Geneva continues to allow seating indoors, in defiance of Gov. J.B. Pritzker s ban Brian Hill | Staff Photographer, Oct. 27
Co-owner K.C. Gulbro said FoxFire Tavern in Geneva lost about 80% of its business during the spring shutdown. Brian Hill | Staff Photographer, Oct. 27
Updated 12/21/2020 4:42 PM
SPRINGFIELD Lawyers for FoxFire Tavern in Geneva are asking the Illinois Supreme Court to overturn an appellate court decision that found the governor s indoor dining ban was lawfully imposed.
FoxFire Tavern is one of dozens of restaurants that sued Gov. J.B. Pritzker and his administration after he issued an executive order imposing stricter restrictions on businesses, including a ban on indoor dining and bar service, in response to rising COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations throughout the state.
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PEORIA
A Peoria man will get a new trial as an appellate court held this week that a prosecutor improperly struck one of the only Black jurors during jury selection.
Kendal Bradshaw was on trial for drug possession charges in 2017 and there were two Black men in the jury pool. A Peoria County prosecutor used allotted strikes to take both men out of the jury pool, basing it on the fact that they had contact with police and past convictions.
Only one of the strikes was challenged in Bradshaw s appeal, which held that prosecutors failed to prove the move wasn t due to their race.
PEORIA The attempted murder conviction of a Peoria man was thrown out this week after an appellate court panel ruled a judge should have let one of his key witnesses take the stand.
Instead, Peoria County Circuit Judge Paul Gilfillan didn t allow the witness to take the stand as the witness initially gave a false name, saying “he did not want to get involved in the trial of Myrune D. Linwood, who was convicted of shooting another man in August 2017 outside a South Peoria nightclub.
Linwood, 29, was sentenced to 36 years on the charge of attempted murder. After the December 2017 verdict and after the jury had left the room, Linwood got up, walked to the front of the table and flung a pitcher, which was full of water, about 10 feet toward the clerk’s desk, according to witnesses.
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