CriminalDisposition

Description:

These elements represent the initial disposition of a charge, as well as any post-termination judgments such as might arise from an appeal.

Warning:

There are many different ways, both correct and incorrect, that courts can record dispositions and sentences.  This calls for a couple of important approaches to Judici's court data:

• • Never try and interpret the data.  Even trying to do something as simple as determining whether or not someone was convicted on a given count can be difficult when the initial charge on the count has been amended or otherwise superseded.

  • When in doubt, call the court.  To help them answer your question, look up the same case on the court's free public-access site (using the search available at www.judici.com) and provide them the link or ask them to do the same search.

 Attributes:

• • Number- an ordinal/sequence number which represents the sequence in which the dispositions were recorded by the court

    • In many court, you have to watch out for non-initial dispositions whose Code (see below) is between 600 and 699. Generally speaking, these vacate or otherwise modify a previous disposition or sentence.

  • Date- this represents the date on which the judgment was handed down. It is possible that Date will not indicate the same sequence as Number.   See also Date formats in Judici XML

  • Code- these attributes indicate the disposition, based on the standards used in the court. For more on the standard codes used in Illinois, see notes on Disposition Code in the ADR User's Guide.  See also the general notes on Code, Description and Text attributes.

    • • See Criminal conviction data for more on disposition reporting.

  • Description- see also the general notes on Code, Description and Text attributes.

  • Text- see also the general notes on Code, Description and Text attributes.

  • Type-(e.g.  Withhold Judgment, etc.)  since the court may use multiple "flavors" of these dispositions (e.g. Withhold Judgement/550/10)

  • Mode (e.g. Bench, Jury, Guilty Plea)

  • ModificationType- not used

  • XID-  Judici internal use only

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