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The Illinois Supreme Court is not expected to render a decision on the constitutionality of the Pre-Trial Fairness Act until April. The appeal to a Kankakee County Judge's ruling was filed last week from attorneys for Governor JB Pritzker, Attorney General Kwame Raoul, Senate President Dan Harmon, and Speaker Chris Welch. While the "cashless bail" portion of the SAFE-T Act was thrown out, other parts are still in effect says Knox County State's Attorney Jeremy Karlin. "The Pre-Trial Fairness Act no cash bail, is the only thing that's been affected by this decision," Karlin told WGIL in an interview on Wednesday. "Other parts of the statute that requires law enforcement to have body cameras, requires additional training, things like that. That remains in place and is unaffected by this recent decision." "Do we need the Pre-Trial Fairness Act in Knox County? I don't think we did. Knox County State's Attorney sounds off cash-ba ....
A Galesburg man was sentenced this week to 10 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections for aggravated arson. Just minutes before he was to go to a jury trial on Monday, 45-year-old Anthony J. Williams plead guilty to the Class X felony charge and was sentenced to prison, according to Knox County State's Attorney Jeremy Karlin. Karlin says that at the plea hearing, he recited a factual basis for the plea and stated that Williams was being held in the Knox County Jail awaiting trial on other charges when he started a fire that damaged his jail cell door. The charge of arson was elevated to aggravated arson because there were other people in the jail at the time he started the fire. Several lesser offenses of felony retail theft and aggravated fleeing and eluding were dismissed as part of the plea. Williams had previously served a 14-year sentence in the IDOC for aggravated robbery. He will be required to serve 85 percent of his sentence. ....
The Granite City, Illinois, man accused of striking Knox County Sheriff's Deputy Nicholas Weist, killing him, in Henry County is facing more charges. Knox County State's Attorney Jeremy Karlin states that he convened the Knox County Grand Jury and that a returned bill of indictment against Daylon Richardson for charges committed in the county prior to Weist's death. Karlin says it is alleged that on April 29th, during the high-speed pursuit that resulted in Weist's death, Richardson fired a handgun from his vehicle at pursing Galesburg Police Officer Jared Tapscott along Illinois Route 150. The grand jury indicted Richardson on three Class X felony charges of Attempted First-Degree Murder, Aggravated Discharge of a Firearm, and Armed Violence. Karlin says that his case against Richardson will proceed following the case in Henry County, where the man remains in custody. He adds that both States Attorneys in both counties are coordinating their prosecution of Richards ....
A Galesburg man was sentenced to 15 years in prison earlier this month for dissemination of child pornography. Nicholas Johnson plead guilty to the charge, a Class X felony that carries a sentencing range of 8-30 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections in an agreement that saw several other child porn charges and a meth possession charge dropped in Knox County Circuit Court. Judge Raymond Cavanaugh on December 1 heard evidence of the defendant's possession of hundreds of illegal photos and videos and, as a result of the evidence, rejected a request from Johnson for a minimum sentence of eight years. Instead, Cavanaugh sided with the State's argument that a shorter prison sentence would denigrate the seriousness of the offense and, given Johnson's minimal criminal history, believed that 15 years was appropriate. Johnson was arrested in July of 2020 at his residence on Pine Street by Knox County deputies and Galesburg Police officers. State's Attorney Jeremy K ....
The crash occurred along US Highway 34 that resulted in Baumgardner’s death and the hospitalization of Jamal Jenkins Junior and three children under the age of 10 that were in his car. Knox County State’s Attorney Jeremy Karlin says that Jenkins was erroneously charged with a second count of reckless homicide due to the mistaken belief that one of the children had been killed in the accident. During the Monday Knox County committee meeting overseeing the sheriff’s department, Sheriff David Clague said the crash was one of the worst he’d seen in his 48 years, adding it was the first time he could remember requesting three life-flight helicopters land for one accident. ....