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People v. Esposito

Citations

  • 521 N.E.2d 873
  • 121 Ill. 2d 491
  • 118 Ill. Dec. 396
  • 1988 Ill. LEXIS 48

How courts have described this case

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  • finding the 45-day time delay to be significant because the statutory scheme only requires that trial court conduct a hearing on a petition to rescind within 30 days, as opposed to within some shorter time frame
  • finding the 45-day time delay to be significant because the statutory scheme only requires that trial court conduct a hearing on a petition to rescind within 30 days, as opposed to within some shorter time frame
  • implied-consent concept and the statutory summary suspension procedure were intended to protect the public, not to punish the licensee
  • summary suspension of driver’s license for refusing to take test for BAC and for BAC of .10 or greater was “intended to protect the public, not to punish the licensee”
  • implied-consent concept and the statutory summary suspension procedure were intended to protect the public, not to punish the licensee
  • drivers whose blood-alcohol content is 0.10% or more and those whose blood-alcohol content falls below that mark are not so similarly situated as to require identical treatment

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Judges: Ward

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61 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

26 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

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