To create a separate court
calendar and to allocate additional court time and personnel to handle cases
of defendants who are in jail, in order to more fully and quickly resolve
their cases in an accelerated manner without trial. It is anticipated and
hoped that many of these cases will result in expedited resolutions
resulting in the defendants release from the Kane County Jail and placement
into another facility or supervised program, thereby reducing the population
of the Kane County Jail.
The ADC will commence on Wednesday, February 16, 2005 at 9:00 am in Courtroom 313
before Judge Grant Wegner. The ADC will operate each Wednesday and Thursday
morning of each week thereafter when court is in session. More time may be
allotted as needed.
Kane County
State’s Attorney John Barsanti and Kane County Public Defender David Kliment
have agreed to the creation of an Accelerated Disposition Court (ADC) and
will be assigning a specific attorney or attorneys to the ADC.
Types of cases appropriate for the new Accelerated Disposition Court
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Cases involving defendants who
are charged with Class III and Class IV felonies, other than drug offenses,
who are in custody on their initial court date followed bond call.
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Cases involving detainees being
held in the Kane County jail on “holds” from another jurisdiction who may
have pending matters in Kane County that can be resolved quickly and would
likely involve release from our jail. (For example, detainees who are on
parole or are wanted by another jurisdiction, but commit a relatively minor
offense in Kane County, usually have a no “bond hold” placed on them by the
Department of Corrections or other jurisdiction. Because these detainees will
likely be returning to prison or jail in other jurisdictions, it is likely
that the Kane County matters could be disposed of expeditiously and short of
trial, thus having the defendants released from our jail and transferred
back to the Department of Corrections or other jurisdiction.)
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Cases involving detainees
identified by the jail as having special needs requiring emergency attention
from the court. Immediate access and attention by the court system may
result in the detainees release from jail and into hospitals or other care
facilities to properly address their special needs.
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Cases involving any negotiated
plea in a felony case where the defendant is in custody, which can’t be
heard in an accelerated manner due to the court’s calendar in the particular
courtroom involved. (This will create more time for the felony courts and
judges to handle other types of in-custody cases with dispatch.)
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Any and all other felony cases
in which all of the parties agree that the case is an appropriate case to be
transferred to the ADC.