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Friday, April 18, 2014

Judge wants back on bench after insanity ruling

By Steve Schmadeke
Chicago Tribune
Originally published March 28, 2014

Can a suspended Cook County judge return to the bench after being declared legally insane at the time she shoved a sheriff’s deputy in 2012?

For the first time in Illinois, attorneys on the case say, a judicial disciplinary panel has begun tackling the question of whether a judge whose psychotic episodes can apparently be controlled through medication should be allowed to return to the bench.

The entire article is here.