Court Opinion

ID: 9731601
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 15:52:00.130228+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:26:19.999246
License: Public Domain

MR. JUSTICE UNDERWOOD, specially concurring: In a curious inversion of what I would consider normal procedure, my colleagues first discuss the merits of the case and then decide the judgment appealed from was not appealable. I agree that, in the circumstances of this case, the “directed verdict” of not guilty is not appealable. I am, however, not at all certain that due process requires that the statements given the Board be produced for inspection once the witness testifies (see People ex rel. Illinois Judicial Inquiry Board v. Hartel (1978), 72 Ill. 2d 225), as I read the court’s dicta to indicate. Because discussion of that question is unnecessary here, I would await its presentation before deciding it.