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Did a veteran judge in downstate Quincy who reversed his guilty ruling against a young man in a sexual assault case do so because he reconsidered the evidence and realized he was wrong? Or, did he do it to get around a state law that would have forced him to send 18-year-old Drew Clinton to prison for at least four years? Those two scenarios form the crux of the decision now before the ...

Day two of the Illinois Courts Commission hearing against Judge Robert Adrian wrapped up a day early on Wednesday, November 9th, 2023.

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Eighth Circuit Court Judge Robert Adrian, 64, was publicly admonished this week for vacating a sexual assault conviction of Drew Clinton, 18, because he had served five months in county jail.

A judge is western Illinois is no longer handling criminal cases after he reversed his bench-trial conviction of an 18-year-old man for sexual assault, declaring that the youth had received “plenty of punishment” after spending 148 days in jail.