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Macon County on hook for sexual offender confinement petition legal bills

By "eAdvocate"

11-25-2010 Illinois: DECATUR - Macon County officials face a dilemma of how to pay for the legal representation and medical evaluation sexually violent parolees are entitled to as they battle rulings that keep them confined until they successfully complete sex offender treatment. Ronald K. Jones, 51, of Decatur is opposing a petition by the Illinois Attorney General's Office, and the Fourth District Appellate Court has vacated Macon County Circuit Court Judge Lisa Holder White's appointments of a Macon County public defender and then the Office of the State Appellate Defender to represent him because neither is allowed to handle civil matters. As a result, Associate Judge Timothy Steadman on Tuesday presented the county board's Justice Committee with a bill for $2,079 from attorney Monica Hawkins for her representation of Jones on his latest appeal...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on November 25, 2010 (boomark / email).