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  "id": 5557261,
  "name": "In re SPECIAL PROSECUTOR (Jerome Gholson, Appellee, v. Alan C. Downen, State's Attorney of Hamilton County, Appellant)",
  "name_abbreviation": "Gholson v. Downen",
  "decision_date": "1988-12-21",
  "docket_number": "No. 66484",
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill.",
    "id": 8772,
    "name": "Illinois Supreme Court"
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "In re SPECIAL PROSECUTOR (Jerome Gholson, Appellee, v. Alan C. Downen, State\u2019s Attorney of Hamilton County, Appellant)."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "PER CURIAM:\nThe issues in this case, concerning section 6 of \u201cAn Act in regard to attorneys general and state\u2019s attorneys\u201d (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 14, par. 6), have become moot. The appellant in this case, Alan C. Downen, brought this appeal in his \u201cofficial capacity as State\u2019s Attorney of Hamilton County.\u201d Alan C. Downen is no longer State\u2019s Attorney of Hamilton County. Since the issues are moot, we vacate the judgments of the appellate and circuit courts and remand the cause to the circuit court of Hamilton County with directions to dismiss the petition for the appointment of a special prosecutor.\nJudgments vacated; cause remanded with directions.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "PER CURIAM:"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Alan C. Downen, State\u2019s Attorney, of McLeansboro (Terry Madsen, Assistant Attorney General, of Chicago, and Kenneth R. Boyle and Stephen E. Norris, of the State\u2019s Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, of Mt. Vernon, of counsel), for appellant.",
      "Clyde L. Kuehn, of Kuehn & Rhein, of Belleville, for appellee.",
      "John Baricevic, of Belleville, for amicus curiae Illinois State\u2019s Attorneys Association."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "(No. 66484.\nIn re SPECIAL PROSECUTOR (Jerome Gholson, Appellee, v. Alan C. Downen, State\u2019s Attorney of Hamilton County, Appellant).\nOpinion filed December 21, 1988.\nNeil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Alan C. Downen, State\u2019s Attorney, of McLeansboro (Terry Madsen, Assistant Attorney General, of Chicago, and Kenneth R. Boyle and Stephen E. Norris, of the State\u2019s Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, of Mt. Vernon, of counsel), for appellant.\nClyde L. Kuehn, of Kuehn & Rhein, of Belleville, for appellee.\nJohn Baricevic, of Belleville, for amicus curiae Illinois State\u2019s Attorneys Association."
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