Judges make all kinds of decisions, from the very personal, such as child custody decisions, to those with much broader impact. The decisions that judges make affect our lives, both directly and indirectly, often for many years to come.
We never know when a judge we vote for today will make a decision that will affect your life and the lives of your family and friends. It is our responsibility to vote for judges we can trust to make impartial decisions based on fair consideration of the facts and law. In some cases, this means that judges may make unpopular or controversial decisions, we need to be able trust that our judges can make those decisions correctly without regard to personal bias, political or economic pressures, or other outside influences.
This crucial public service helps Illinois voters elect qualified judges. For more information about our judicial evaluations, please visit VoteForJudges. A spokeswoman for the judges disputed some of the reversal numbers and says no conclusions about their ability should be drawn from them. Injustice Watch reviewed the reversals of every judge running for retention in Cook County to find that these judges improperly applied the law far more often than their colleagues, in the views of higher courts.
She has been reversed 40 times since , records show — far more often than any of her colleagues running for retention. The appellate panel agreed with the original finding that the amusement tax applied to the entire ticket price and not just to part of it. Sherlock, a judge since who serves in the law division, has been reversed 19 times since He denied the motion, and the appeals court overturned his decision.
Hoffman wrote in reversing him. Wadas repeatedly was reversed for disregarding a basic tenet of Illinois criminal law, leading defendants to be saddled with additional convictions and, in some cases, to receive longer sentences. Her reversals large came from her time hearing felony criminal cases at the Markham courthouse. In one case before Demacopoulos, Lavelle Deering, serving a year sentence for a conviction related to a fatal armed robbery, appealed, arguing his lawyer provided ineffective counsel.
Demacopoulos improperly denied his request, an appellate panel found. John Seasly reports for Injustice Watch, a nonpartisan, not-for-profit journalism organization. Know about breaking news as it happens. We follow the stories and update you as they develop.
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