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91_HB2815

 
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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.)

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