{"id":"IL-063","kind":"order","level":"court","jurisdiction":"Illinois","state":"IL","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Supreme Court of Illinois","authority":"Ill. Const. 1970, art. VI, sec. 16","instrument":"M.R. 30370, In re: Illinois Courts Response to COVID-19 Emergency / Impact on Trials (order of April 7, 2020, amending the orders of March 20 and April 3, 2020)","title":"Impact on Trials: chief judges may continue trials until further order; speedy-trial time excluded and tolled","dateIssued":"2020-04-07","effective":"2020-04-07","end":"Modified May 20, 2020 (IL-064): continuances \u0027until further order of this Court\u0027.","startDate":"2020-04-07","endDate":"2021-03-31","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1"],"types":["CRT"],"addressees":["chief judges of every circuit","criminal and civil litigants"],"clause":"IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Court\u0027s orders of March 20, 2020 and April 3, 2020 are amended as follows: The Chief Judges of each circuit may continue trials until further order of this Court. The continuances occasioned by this Order serve the ends of justice and outweigh the best interests of the public and defendants in a speedy trial. Therefore, such continuances shall be excluded from speedy trial computations contained in section 103-5 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963... Statutory time restrictions in section 103-5 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 and section 5-601 of the Juvenile Court Act shall be tolled until further order of this Court.","enforcement":"Supervisory order","functions":["CT courts (jury and bench trials)","PJ litigation matters","WF jurors"],"notes":"Statewide suspension of trials by supervisory order; the May 20 order continued the authority indefinitely.","sourceUrl":"https://courts.illinois.gov/SupremeCourt/Announce/2020/040720-1.pdf","snapshot":"http://web.archive.org/web/20200527000945/https://courts.illinois.gov/SupremeCourt/Announce/2020/040720-1.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":32996,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"IL","url":"/library/IL-063","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/IL-063","citation":"Supreme Court of Illinois, M.R. 30370, In re: Illinois Courts Response to COVID-19 Emergency / Impact on Trials (order of April 7, 2020, amending the orders of March 20 and April 3, 2020) (Apr. 7, 2020) (Ex. IL-063)","stateName":"Illinois","related":["IL-064","IL-062"]}