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91_HB0990
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1 AN ACT to amend the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 by
2 changing Section 103-5.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 is
6 amended by changing Section 103-5 as follows:
7 (725 ILCS 5/103-5) (from Ch. 38, par. 103-5)
8 Sec. 103-5. Speedy trial.)
9 (a) Every person in custody in this State for an alleged
10 offense shall be tried by the court having jurisdiction
11 within 120 days from the date he or she was taken into
12 custody unless delay is occasioned by the defendant, by an
13 examination for fitness ordered pursuant to Section 104-13 of
14 this Act, by a fitness hearing, by an adjudication of
15 unfitness to stand trial, by a continuance allowed pursuant
16 to Section 114-4 of this Act after a court's determination of
17 the defendant's physical incapacity for trial, or by an
18 interlocutory appeal. Delay shall be considered to be agreed
19 to by the defendant unless he or she objects to the delay by
20 making a written demand for trial or an oral demand for trial
21 on the record.
22 (b) Every person on bail or recognizance shall be tried
23 by the court having jurisdiction within 160 days from the
24 date defendant demands trial unless delay is occasioned by
25 the defendant, by an examination for fitness ordered pursuant
26 to Section 104-13 of this Act, by a fitness hearing, by an
27 adjudication of unfitness to stand trial, by a continuance
28 allowed pursuant to Section 114-4 of this Act after a court's
29 determination of the defendant's physical incapacity for
30 trial, or by an interlocutory appeal.
31 For purposes of computing the 160 day period under this
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1 subsection, every person who was in custody for an alleged
2 offense and demanded trial and is subsequently released on
3 bail or recognizance and demands trial, shall be given credit
4 for time spent in custody following the making of the demand
5 while in custody. Any demand for trial made under this
6 provision shall be in writing; and in the case of a defendant
7 not in custody, the demand for trial shall include the date
8 of any prior demand made under this provision while the
9 defendant was in custody.
10 (c) If the court determines that the State has exercised
11 without success due diligence to obtain evidence material to
12 the case and that there are reasonable grounds to believe
13 that such evidence may be obtained at a later day the court
14 may continue the cause on application of the State for not
15 more than an additional 60 days. If the court determines that
16 the State has exercised without success due diligence to
17 obtain results of DNA testing that is material to the case
18 and that there are reasonable grounds to believe that such
19 results may be obtained at a later day, the court may
20 continue the cause on application of the State for not more
21 than an additional 120 days.
22 (d) Every person not tried in accordance with
23 subsections (a), (b) and (c) of this Section shall be
24 discharged from custody or released from the obligations of
25 his bail or recognizance.
26 (e) If a person is simultaneously in custody upon more
27 than one charge pending against him in the same county, or
28 simultaneously demands trial upon more than one charge
29 pending against him in the same county, he shall be tried, or
30 adjudged guilty after waiver of trial, upon at least one such
31 charge before expiration relative to any of such pending
32 charges of the period prescribed by subsections (a) and (b)
33 of this Section. Such person shall be tried upon all of the
34 remaining charges thus pending within 160 days from the date
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1 on which judgment relative to the first charge thus
2 prosecuted is rendered pursuant to the Unified Code of
3 Corrections or, if such trial upon such first charge is
4 terminated without judgment and there is no subsequent trial
5 of, or adjudication of guilt after waiver of trial of, such
6 first charge within a reasonable time, the person shall be
7 tried upon all of the remaining charges thus pending within
8 160 days from the date on which such trial is terminated; if
9 either such period of 160 days expires without the
10 commencement of trial of, or adjudication of guilt after
11 waiver of trial of, any of such remaining charges thus
12 pending, such charge or charges shall be dismissed and barred
13 for want of prosecution unless delay is occasioned by the
14 defendant, by an examination for fitness ordered pursuant to
15 Section 104-13 of this Act, by a fitness hearing, by an
16 adjudication of unfitness for trial, by a continuance allowed
17 pursuant to Section 114-4 of this Act after a court's
18 determination of the defendant's physical incapacity for
19 trial, or by an interlocutory appeal; provided, however, that
20 if the court determines that the State has exercised without
21 success due diligence to obtain evidence material to the case
22 and that there are reasonable grounds to believe that such
23 evidence may be obtained at a later day the court may
24 continue the cause on application of the State for not more
25 than an additional 60 days.
26 (f) Delay occasioned by the defendant shall temporarily
27 suspend for the time of the delay the period within which a
28 person shall be tried as prescribed by subsections (a), (b),
29 or (e) of this Section and on the day of expiration of the
30 delay the said period shall continue at the point at which it
31 was suspended. Where such delay occurs within 21 days of the
32 end of the period within which a person shall be tried as
33 prescribed by subsections (a), (b), or (e) of this Section,
34 the court may continue the cause on application of the State
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1 for not more than an additional 21 days beyond the period
2 prescribed by subsections (a), (b), or (e). This subsection
3 (f) shall become effective on, and apply to persons charged
4 with alleged offenses committed on or after, March 1, 1977.
5 (Source: P.A. 90-705, eff. 1-1-99.)