Jurors are scheduled to return from an 18-day holiday break on Monday at the corruption trial of former Illinois House ...

Micheail Ward was convicted of first-degree murder in Hadiya's death in 2018, and sentenced to 84 years in prison. His ...

Last year in a trio of cases, the Illinois Appellate Court reviewed how a circuit court should handle questions from a jury during deliberations: Edson v. Horwich¸ 2024 IL App (1st) 221877-U; Galich v ...

An Illinois appeals court decision that overturned the convictions for a man accused of fatally shooting 15-year-old Hadiya ...

Micheail Ward was found guilty and sentenced to 84 years in prison for the 2013 murder of Pendleton. His conviction was overturned in 2023, and a tie vote from the Illinois Supreme Court upheld the ...

The alleged gunman in the fatal shooting of Chicago teen Hadiya Pendleton has been granted a new trial. Micheail Ward was convicted in 2018 and sentenced to 84 years in prison for the 15-year-old ...

A Rock Island woman sentenced to five years in the Illinois Department of Corrections will receive a new sentencing hearing after an Illinois Appeals Court determined her sentencing was unfair due ...

Sean Grayson, the former Sangamon County deputy charged with first-degree murder for shooting and killing Sonya ...

A group of physicians and a medical center must pay $4 million to the family of a woman who died from a stroke as a result of alleged negligent care, a state appellate panel held.

Sean P. Grayson's scheduled court date for Jan. 2 has been moved according to a docket entry made by Presiding Circuit Court ...

Attorneys are expected to discuss jury instructions Thursday at the federal corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker ...

The author writes "Preservation in the court below is the nucleus of appellate practice. But what does the “the court below” mean? Is it limited to Supreme Court, Surrogate’s Court ...