People v. Verstat

How courts have described this case

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• deciding that acquittals amounted to appealable dismissals when the trial judge denied the prosecution’s requests for continuance, swore in the defendants, asked ‘only their names and addresses, and found them not guilty
• “a trial court should deny continuances sought by the State [under section 114-4] where a defendant’s right to a speedy trial *** will be improperly obstructed”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).