People v. Baxter

How courts have described this case

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• holding that summary finding of direct criminal contempt and one-year sentence were proper where the defendant filed a pro se petition for substitution of judge alleging that the trial judge was part of a criminal conspiracy to find him guilty
• holding that summary finding of direct criminal contempt and one-year sentence were proper where the defendant filed a pro se petition for substitution of judge alleging that the trial judge was part of a criminal conspiracy to find him guilty
• the filing of a pro se petition for substitution of judge and attorney was the basis for a direct criminal contempt conviction
• the filing of a pro se petition for substitution of judge and attorney was the basis for a direct criminal contempt conviction
• contempt judgment for stating in petition that court acted as a “Ku Klux Klan, Gestapo Setup, Jim Crow Justice and a Crime Syndicate” upheld without signed order, even though that would have been “better practice”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. King
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1972-10-06· cited 20×
• People v. Minor
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1996-06-03· cited 14×
• People Ex Rel. Woodward v. Oliver
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1975-01-20· cited 14×
• Shatkin Investment Corp. v. Connelly
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1984-11-01· cited 12×
• People v. Clark
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1972-03-03· cited 9×
• People v. Robinson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1981-09-28· cited 5×
• People v. Carradine
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1972-09-20· cited 5×
• People v. Thor
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1972-07-11· cited 5×
• D'AGOSTINO v. Lynch
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2008-04-02· cited 4×
• People v. Denson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1973-11-20· cited 1×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bloom v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-05-20· cited 1,167×
• Mayberry v. Pennsylvania
  Supreme Court· 1971-01-20· cited 732×
• DeStefano v. Woods
  Supreme Court· 1968-10-14· cited 433×
• People v. Loughran
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1954-03-17· cited 81×
• People v. Tomashevsky
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1971-06-24· cited 31×
• The People v. Tavernier
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1943-11-16· cited 25×
• People v. DeStefano
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1965-11-08· cited 8×